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.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-12-14T22:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T20:20:05.642Z
Reserved: 2017-11-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-16355
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-12-14T22:29:00.210
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-16355
 Redhat
                        Redhat