CVE-2018-12028

HIGH

7.8

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1650%

EPSS Percentile43.32th

PublishedJun 17, 2018

Last ModifiedNov 21, 2024

Vulnerability 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.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Phusion

Passenger

>= 5.3.0 and < 5.3.2

References & Advisories

🔗 https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2

🔗 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02