CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2018-12027

An Insecure Permissions vulnerability in SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 causes information disclosure in the following situation: given a Passenger-spawned application process that reports that it listens on a certain Unix domain socket, if any of the parent directories of said socket are writable by a normal user that is not the application's user, then that non-application user can swap that directory with something else, resulting in traffic being redirected to a non-application user's process through an alternative Unix domain socket.

6.5 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 8 / Impact : 6.4

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

8.8 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2 Mitigation Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02 Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2018-06-17 08:29

Updated : 2019-10-03 12:03

NVD link : CVE-2018-12027

Mitre link : CVE-2018-12027

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-200

CWE-732