CVE-2013-4136
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.4EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
ext/common/ServerInstanceDir.h in Phusion Passenger gem before 4.0.6 for Ruby allows local users to gain privileges or possibly change the ownership of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on a directory with a predictable name in /tmp/.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.4 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (26th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2017-0321)
- Published
- September 30, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2017-0321 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 17, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- phusion / passenger
- ruby-lang / ruby
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/16/6
- https://code.google.com/p/phusion-passenger/issues/detail?id=910
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/blob/release-4.0.6/NEWS
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/5483b3292cc2af1c83033eaaadec20dba4dcfd9b
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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