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SCA: security update for passenger (GHSA-9qj7-jvg4-qr2x)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422751

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2013-2119)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9qj7-jvg4-qr2x

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422751

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-2119

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/29/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2119

BID: 60240

cwe: CWE-377