CVE-2018-12026

CRITICAL

Phusion Passenger <5.3.2 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

During the spawning of a malicious Passenger-managed application, SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 allows such applications to replace key files or directories in the spawning communication directory with symlinks. This then could result in arbitrary reads and writes, which in turn can result in information disclosure and privilege escalation.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0112
EPSS Percentile 78.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-59
Status published
Products (2)
phusion/passenger 5.3.0 - 5.3.2
rubygems/passenger 5.3.0 - 5.3.2RubyGems
Published Jun 17, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026