CVE-2018-12027

An Insecure Permissions vulnerability in SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 causes information disclosure in the following situation: given a…

published June 17, 2018

CVSS
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EPSS
1%
Percentile
65.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An Insecure Permissions vulnerability in SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 causes information disclosure in the following situation: given a Passenger-spawned application process that reports that it listens on a certain Unix domain socket, if any of the parent directories of said socket are writable by a normal user that is not the application's user, then that non-application user can swap that directory with something else, resulting in traffic being redirected to a non-application user's process through an alternative Unix domain socket.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01088 · 65.0th percentile
Published
2018-06-17T20:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 JUN 20:00Z
    An Insecure Permissions vulnerability in SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 causes information disclosure in the following situation: given a…
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