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SCA: security update for passenger (GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm)
medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 414090
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- In agent/Core/SpawningKit/Spawner.h in Phusion Passenger 5.1.10 (fixed in Passenger Open Source 5.1.11 and
Passenger Enterprise 5.1.10), if Passenger is running as root, it is possible to list the contents of
arbitrary files on a system by symlinking a file named REVISION from the application root folder to a file
of choice and querying passenger-status --show=xml. (CVE-2017-16355)
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Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 414090
Version: Revision 1.5
Type: Local
Family: SCA Checks
Published: 1/23/2025
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: Low
Base Score: 1.2
Temporal Score: 0.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16355
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.7
Temporal Score: 4.1
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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: 5/13/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/14/2017
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2017-16355
cwe: CWE-200