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CVE-2018-12027: Information Exposure

June 17, 2018 (updated October 3, 2019)

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.

References

  • blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12027

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 5.3.0 before 5.3.2

Fixed versions

  • 5.3.2

Solution

Upgrade to version 5.3.2 or above.

Impact 8.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
  • CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Source file

gem/passenger/CVE-2018-12027.yml

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