Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-1832

Title: Phusion Passenger

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-1832.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Feb 19, 2015

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.07%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-1832: Phusion Passenger 4.0.37 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on (1) control_process.pid or a (2) generation-* file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1831.

Impacted Vendors

phusion 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/29/6 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736958 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058992 https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/94428057c602da3d6d34ef75c78091066ecac5c0 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/29/6 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736958 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058992 https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/94428057c602da3d6d34ef75c78091066ecac5c0

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-1832 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 19, 2015 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:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.