{"answers":{"affected":"2 open source packages ship an affected version, including passenger. It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-16355 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade passenger to 5.1.11 or later.","what":"CVE-2017-16355 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 14 Dec 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2017-16355 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-16355 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 14 Dec 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-16355 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- passenger (RubyGems): affected all versions; fixed in 5.1.11\n- passenger (RubyGems): affected all versions; fixed in 5.1.11\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-16355/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-16355/index.md)","id":"CVE-2017-16355","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-16355/index.md","name":"CVE-2017-16355","record":{"aliases":["CVE-2017-1000384","DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16355","DSA-4415-1","GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16355"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Phusion Passenger","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"An attacker can read arbitrary files on the system by exploiting a symlink vulnerability in Phusion Passenger when running as root.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"passenger","vendor":"phusion"}],"cvss":{"score":4.7,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-200","name":"Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor"}],"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.","ecosystems":["RubyGems"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Phusion Passenger information disclosure","id":"CVE-2017-16355","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","product":"debian:debian_linux","products":["debian:debian_linux"],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2017"},"n_packages":2,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-16356"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["5.1.11"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"passenger","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm"},{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["5.1.11"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"passenger","purl":"pkg:gem/passenger","source":"GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm"}],"prev":{"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-16353"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2017-12-14","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-44026","kev_date_added":"2023-06-22","published":"2021-11-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-05","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"An attacker can read arbitrary files on the system by exploiting a symlink vulnerability in Phusion Passenger when running as root.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-16355/"}