CVE-2013-2119

Phusion Passenger gem before 3.0.21 and 4.0.x before 4.0.5 for Ruby allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevent application start) or gain privileges by pre-creating a temporary "config" file in a directory with a predictable name in /tmp/ before it is used by the gem.

Published: 2014-01-03 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published

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Threat Intelligence & Risk Assessment for CVE-2013-2119

EPSS CVSS CWE GHSA Affected OS Tracker

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2013-2119 is rated Low Risk (24.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.07%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-2119

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

#	Date	Old EPSS score	New EPSS score	Delta (New - Old)
1	2025-03-17	0.04%	0.07%	+0.03%
2	2023-03-07	0.95%	0.04%	-0.91%
3	2023-02-13	—	0.95%	—

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-2119

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score	Version	Severity	Vector	Exploitability	Impact	Score source
4.6	2.0	MEDIUM	`AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P` Click to expand Access vector (AV:L) Requires local access to the target system. Access complexity (AC:L) Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable. Authentication (AU:N) No authentication is required. Confidentiality impact (C:P) Partial confidentiality impact. Integrity impact (I:P) Partial integrity impact. Availability impact (A:P) Partial availability impact.	3.9	6.4	[email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2013-2119

CWE-264 MITRE ↗

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2013-2119

GHSA-9qj7-jvg4-qr2x · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: rubygems — Phusion Passenger Denial of Service

OS Trackers for CVE-2013-2119

vendor	priority	summary	link
`redhat`	medium	—	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2119
`ubuntu`	medium	CVE-2013-2119 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ruby-passenger), 7 status rows across 7 suites (lucid, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream): DNE 3, ignored 2, not-affected 1, released 1.	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-2119

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-2119

Vendor	Product	Version	Raw CPE
phusion	passenger	<= 3.0.20	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger::::::::
phusion	passenger	3.0.0	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.0:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.1	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.1:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.2	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.2:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.3	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.3:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.4	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.4:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.5	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.5:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.6	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.6:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.7	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.7:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.8	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.8:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.9	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.9:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.10	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.10:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.11	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.11:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.12	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.12:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.13	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.13:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.14	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.14:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.15	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.15:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.17	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.17:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.18	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.18:::::::*
phusion	passenger	3.0.19	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:3.0.19:::::::*
phusion	passenger	4.0.1	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:4.0.1:::::::*
phusion	passenger	4.0.2	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:4.0.2:::::::*
phusion	passenger	4.0.3	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:4.0.3:::::::*
phusion	passenger	4.0.4	cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:4.0.4:::::::*
redhat	openshift	1.0	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift:1.0::enterprise:::::

References for CVE-2013-2119

URL	Tags
http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-3-0-21-released/	Patch Vendor Advisory
http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-4-0-5-released/	Patch Vendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html	Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892813	Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory

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