CVE-2013-2119

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-01-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected products

Phusion Passenger: through 3.0.20; 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5 (+17)
Openshift: 1.0

References

http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-3-0-21-released/
http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-4-0-5-released/
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892813
http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-3-0-21-released/
http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-4-0-5-released/
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892813

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