debian · CVE-2017-16355

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:18:36 GMT

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CVE-2017-16355 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (passenger), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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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