CVE-2013-2119
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.6EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (34th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2017-0208)
- Published
- January 3, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2017-0208 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- redhat / openshift
- ruby-lang / ruby
References
- http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-3-0-21-released/(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-4-0-5-released/(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892813(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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