CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2018-12028

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.

6.8 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 6.4

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

7.8 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

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-2018-12028

Mitre link : CVE-2018-12028

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-732