{"id":"USN-5261-1","summary":"passenger vulnerabilities","details":"It was discovered that Phusion Passenger incorrectly handled a file path in\nthe application root folder. An attacker could possibly use this issue to\nread arbitrary files. (CVE-2017-16355)\n\nIt was discovered that Phusion Passenger had a race condition in the nginx\nmodule that could be used to perform a symlink attack. An attacker could\npossibly use this issue to escalate privileges. (CVE-2018-12029)\n","modified":"2026-06-25T13:30:14.480380703Z","published":"2022-02-01T17:55:14Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16355","UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12029"],"upstream":["CVE-2017-16355","CVE-2018-12029","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16355","UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12029"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5261-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16355"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12029"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"passenger","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/passenger?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Fxenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.0.27-2ubuntu0.1~esm1"}]}],"versions":["5.0.7-3","5.0.22-1","5.0.22-1build1","5.0.22-1build2","5.0.27-2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro","binaries":[{"binary_version":"5.0.27-2ubuntu0.1~esm1","binary_name":"libapache2-mod-passenger"},{"binary_version":"5.0.27-2ubuntu0.1~esm1","binary_name":"passenger"},{"binary_name":"ruby-passenger","binary_version":"5.0.27-2ubuntu0.1~esm1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-5261-1.json","cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS","cves":[{"id":"CVE-2017-16355","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]},{"id":"CVE-2018-12029","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}]}}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}