CVE-2018-12027
Phusion Passenger Spawnkit Insecure Permissions Information Disclosure
Description
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.
INFO
Published Date :
June 17, 2018, 8:29 p.m.
Last Modified :
Oct. 3, 2019, 12:03 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
5.9
Exploitability Score :
2.8
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth
information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to
CVE-2018-12027.
| URL | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2 | Mitigation Vendor Advisory |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02 | Third Party Advisory |
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CVE-2018-12027 vulnerability over time.
Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CWE Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 03, 2019
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CWE CWE-264 CWE-200 CWE-200 CWE-732 -
Modified Analysis by [email protected]
Mar. 08, 2019
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02 Third Party Advisory -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 21, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Aug. 13, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P) Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Changed Reference Type https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2 No Types Assigned https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2 Mitigation, Vendor Advisory Added CWE CWE-264 Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.3.0 up to (excluding) 5.3.2
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2018-12027 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2018-12027
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.08 }} 0.00%
score
0.32154
percentile