CVE-2018-12615: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

June 21, 2018 (updated October 3, 2019)

An issue was discovered in Phusion Passenger. The set of groups (gidset) is not set correctly, leaving it up to randomness (i.e., uninitialized memory) which supplementary groups are actually being set while lowering privileges.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12615

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