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CVE-2016-10345

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

In Phusion Passenger before 5.1.0, a known /tmp filename was used during passenger-install-nginx-module execution, which could allow local attackers to gain the privileges of the passenger user.

Affected products

• Phusion Passenger: through 5.0.30

References

• https://github.com/phusion/passenger/blob/stable-5.1/CHANGELOG
• https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/e5b4b0824d6b648525b4bf63d9fa37e5beeae441
• https://github.com/phusion/passenger/blob/stable-5.1/CHANGELOG
• https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/e5b4b0824d6b648525b4bf63d9fa37e5beeae441

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