CVE-2018-12028

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.

Category

7.8
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.18%
Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory phusion.nl
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2 mitigation vendor advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02 third party advisory vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2018-12028?
CVE-2018-12028 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2018-12028?
To fix CVE-2018-12028, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2018-12028 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2018-12028 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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