Symlink Attack Affecting passenger package, versions < 4.0.5, >= 3.1 < 3.0.21
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (6th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PASSENGER-20098
- published 28 May 2013
- disclosed 28 May 2013
- credit Michael Scherer
Introduced: 28 May 2013
CVE-2013-2119 Open this link in a new tabOverview
passenger is a modern web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js, optimized for performance, low memory usage and ease of use.
Affected versions of this gem create the server instance directory insecurely. An attacker can create a symlink to overwrite an otherwise inaccessible file, possibly inserting content provided by the attacker.