CVE-2017-16355: Information Exposure

December 14, 2017 (updated October 28, 2019)

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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16355
seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34

Code Behaviors & Features

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