CVE-2018-12028

Summary

CVECVE-2018-12028
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-17 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-732

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Phusion Passenger All All All All
Application Phusion Passenger All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Passenger 5.3.2: various security fixes MISC blog.phusion.nl Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
Passenger: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201807-02) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710280 Gentoo Linux Passenger Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201807-02)
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