Description

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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2013-2119

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2013-2119 CWE-264

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities