Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:2017163550000000
Revision Date:2017-12-14Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-16355 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.
Description: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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-16355
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND passenger package in cosmic was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '5.0.30-1+deb9u1build0.18.10.1').
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