CVE-2018-12028
Incorrect Access Control in Phusion Passenger
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.18%
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.
How to fix CVE-2018-12028
To remediate CVE-2018-12028, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 5.3.2 or later
Is CVE-2018-12028 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 5.3.0, < 5.3.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |