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CVE-2018-12028GHSA-JJHJ-8GX7-X836

An Incorrect Access Control vulnerability in SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 allows a Passenger-managed malicious applic

Published
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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 5.3.2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

  • passengerRubyGems

    From 5.3.0 · fixed in 5.3.2

References 2

blog.phusion.nl

security.gentoo.org