CVE-2018-12026GHSA-7CV3-GVMC-8MQ5
During the spawning of a malicious Passenger-managed application, SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 allows such applicatio
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- published
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- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Fix
- Fixed in 5.3.2
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
Summary
During the spawning of a malicious Passenger-managed application, SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 allows such applications to replace key files or directories in the spawning communication directory with symlinks. This then could result in arbitrary reads and writes, which in turn can result in information disclosure and privilege escalation.
Timeline
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Affected versions
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Version range not reported
- passengerRubyGems
From 5.3.0 · fixed in 5.3.2