🛡️ CVE-2018-12028 — passenger
Description
Incorrect Access Control in Phusion Passenger
An Incorrect Access Control vulnerability in SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 allows a Passenger-managed malicious application, upon spawning a child process, to report an arbitrary different PID back to Passenger's process manager. If the malicious application then generates an error, it would cause Passenger's process manager to kill said reported arbitrary PID.
How this vulnerability can be exploited
This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.
Weakness class
CVE-2018-12028 is classified as CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. A sensitive resource is assigned permissions that let unintended actors read or modify it.
Affected software
CVE-2018-12028 is recorded against 1 package.
- passenger (from 5.3.0 up to 5.3.2)
Timeline and source
Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 16 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
References
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
blog.phusion.nl (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
security.gentoo.org (Web)
Details
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| passenger | 5.3.0 | 5.3.2 |
References
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