CVE-2018-12028

passenger: Improper access control in SpawningKit can allow malicious child processes to kill arbitrary processes

Published Jun 17, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 7.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-4386 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-jjhj-8gx7-x836 Incorrect Access Control in Phusion Passenger
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 8:24 AM
Reserved
Jun 7, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 17, 2018, 8:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:37 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jun 5, 2018, 12:00 AM