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low 2.1

CVE-2014-1832 json

Insecure use of temporary files in Phusion passenger

published 2015-02-19 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-qw8w-2xcp-xg59 , EUVD-2018-0670

cvss
2.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 31%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems passenger 4.0.38

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-1832 updated cvss 2.1

rubygem-passenger: insecure use of temporary files

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 rubygem-passenger, ruby193-rubygem-passenger
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Software Collections ruby193-mod_passenger40, ruby193-rubygem-passenger40, ruby193-rubygem-passenger40-native, ruby193-rubygem-passenger40-native-libs
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems passenger
>=4.0.37, <4.0.38
4.0.38

References

Sources

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