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CVE-2015-7519

N/A

Published: January 8, 2016 at 07:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:32 AM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorPhusionpassenger

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 2%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (8)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00024.html

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Source: [email protected]

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/07/1

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Source: [email protected]

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/07/2

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/12/07/cve-2015-7519/

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956281

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/ddb8ecc4ebf260e4967f57f271d4f5761abeac3e

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Source: [email protected]

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00007.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

https://puppet.com/security/cve/passenger-dec-2015-security-fixes

CVSS

4.3MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: NONE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-20

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