Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-2119

Title: Ruby-Lang Ruby Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-2119.

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date Jan 03, 2014
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.06%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-2119: 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.

Impacted Vendors

Y
yukihiro_matsumoto 1
R
ruby-lang 1
R
redhat 1
P
phusion 1

Reference Links

http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-3-0-21-released/ http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-4-0-5-released/ http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892813 http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-3-0-21-released/ http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-4-0-5-released/ http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892813
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.6
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-2119 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.