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https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2 CVE-2018-12028
HIGH
Incorrect Access Control in Phusion Passenger
Record summary
CVE-2018-12028 has a selected CVSS score of 7.8 (high).
Description
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.
Description source: CVE List
Affected products and versions
1| Product | Source | Version range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
passengerBrowse RubyGems / passenger | GitHub Advisory | 5.3.0 to < 5.3.2 · Fixed in 5.3.2 | affected |
References
6github.com
https://github.com/phusion/passenger github.com
https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/1e7c82deb4901c438f583737d8c9f2aac264737c github.com
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2018-12028.yml nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12028 GLSA-201807-02Vendor advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02