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SCA: security update for passenger (GHSA-fxwv-953p-7qpf)

low Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423350

Description

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

 - agent/Core/Controller/SendRequest.cpp in Phusion Passenger before 4.0.60 and 5.0.x before 5.0.22, when
 used in Apache integration mode or in standalone mode without a filtering proxy, allows remote attackers
 to spoof headers passed to applications by using an _ (underscore) character instead of a - (dash)
 character in an HTTP header, as demonstrated by an X_User header. (CVE-2015-7519)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fxwv-953p-7qpf

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 423350

Version: Revision 1.5

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-7519

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/8/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7519

BID: 85709

cwe: CWE-20