CVE-2015-7519

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-12-07
CWE:
CWE-287
Bugzilla:
1290405: CVE-2015-7519 passenger: Header overwriting issue allowing user impersonation

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

agent/Core/Controller/SendRequest.cpp in Phusion Passenger before 4.0.60 and 5.0.x before 5.0.22, when used in Apache integration mode or in standalone mode without a filtering proxy, allows remote attackers to spoof headers passed to applications by using an _ (underscore) character instead of a - (dash) character in an HTTP header, as demonstrated by an X_User header.

Find out more about CVE-2015-7519 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 5.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-passenger40-passenger Will not fix
Red Hat Satellite 6 mod_passenger Will not fix
Red Hat Satellite 6 ruby193-rubygem-passenger Will not fix
Red Hat Satellite 6 rubygem-passenger Will not fix
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 ruby200-rubygem-passenger Will not fix
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 rubygem-passenger Will not fix
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 ruby193-rubygem-passenger Will not fix
Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 ruby193-rubygem-passenger Will not fix
Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 rubygem-passenger Will not fix
OpenStack 6 Installer for RHEL 7 rubygem-passenger Will not fix
OpenStack 6 Installer for RHEL 7 ruby193-rubygem-passenger Will not fix

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