CVE-2018-12027

High

Description

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability—
ProductPhusion Passenger
PublishedJun 17, 2018
First seenJun 17, 2018

How to fix

Update
  • phusion passenger5.3.2 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
phusion passenger5.3.0 ≤ v < 5.3.25.3.2

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CVE-2018-12027 · Phusion Passenger · Dark Radar