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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-06-17

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-732

Affected products

• Passenger (Phusion)

References

• https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02