CVE-2013-2119: Phusion Passenger

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Phusion Passenger: up to and including 3.0.20; version 3.0.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …
• Red Hat Openshift: version 1.0 only

Published 2014-01-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.