Vulnerability in Phusion Passenger
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.
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CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.009 (58.1th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 58th percentile — 58.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2 (Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2018-12028?
- CVE-2018-12028 is a high-severity vulnerability in Phusion Passenger, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2018-06-17.
- How severe is CVE-2018-12028?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2018-12028 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.