{"id":"CVE-2017-16355","aliases":["GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16355","summary":"Phusion Passenger information disclosure","details":"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.","published":"2017-12-14T22:29:00.210Z","modified":"2026-07-08T12:06:19.671638Z","cvss":{"score":4.7,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"epss":null,"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":0,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","name":"passenger","fixedVersion":"5.1.11"}],"fix":{"url":"https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf","label":"phusion/passenger@4043718"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-07-08T12:06:19.671638Z"}}