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CVE-2017-16355

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.7 EPSS 0.36% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-12-14 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2017-16355
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.7
EPSS
0.36%

Original NVD Description

In agent/Core/SpawningKit/Spawner.h in Phusion Passenger 5.1.10 (fixed in Passenger Open Source 5.1.11 and Passenger Enterprise 5.1.10), if Passenger is running as root, it is possible to list the contents of arbitrary files on a system by symlinking a file named REVISION from the application root folder to a file of choice and querying passenger-status --show=xml.

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