CVE-2018-12028 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8