CVE-2017-16355

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.

Date published : 2017-12-14

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34

https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/