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SCA: security update for passenger (GHSA-qw8w-2xcp-xg59)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423460

Description

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

 - Phusion Passenger 4.0.37 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack
 on (1) control_process.pid or a (2) generation-* file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an
 incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1831. (CVE-2014-1832)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qw8w-2xcp-xg59

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423460

Version: Revision 1.4

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: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-1832

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/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: 1/30/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1832

BID: 65267