UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12028

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12028

    Published: 17 Jun 2018Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-12028

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12028, https://blog.phusion.nl/2018/06/12/passenger-5-3-2-various-security-fixes/, https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12028

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: passenger

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=jammy

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -6.0.10-3build1

    Affected versions

    5.0.30-1.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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