{"id":"CVE-2013-2119","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2013-2119","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:53:53.905Z","title":"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/…","description":"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.","published":"2014-01-03T18:54:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:52:47.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4.6,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-264"],"affected":["phusion/passenger","redhat/openshift"],"epss":{"score":0.00397,"percentile":0.33669,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.40%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-3-0-21-released/","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-4-0-5-released/","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892813","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-3-0-21-released/","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-4-0-5-released/","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892813","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2119","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}