CVE-2018-12028

High

Description

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
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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