cve/2017/CVE-2017-16355.md

### [CVE-2017-16355](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16355)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
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#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon