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.
CVE-2013-2119 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 3 products from phusion, from ruby-lang, from redhat organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Documented in 2014, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.
2014-01-03T18:54:11.350
2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Deferred
CVSSv2: 4.6 (MEDIUM)
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
3.9
6.4
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | phusion | passenger | ≤ 3.0.20 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.0 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.1 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.2 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.3 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.4 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.5 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.6 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.7 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.8 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.9 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.10 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.11 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.12 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.13 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.14 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.15 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.17 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.18 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 3.0.19 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 4.0.1 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 4.0.2 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 4.0.3 | Yes |
| Application | phusion | passenger | 4.0.4 | Yes |
| Application | ruby-lang | ruby | * | No |
| Application | redhat | openshift | 1.0 | Yes |
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