CVE-2013-4136 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Phusion Passenger gem versions prior to 4.0.6 for Ruby. An attacker could exploit a symlink attack on predictably named directories in /tmp/ to gain privileges or alter directory ownership. With a CVSS score of 4.4, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules available, and it has received minimal community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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