GHSA-WHFX-877C-5P28

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:49 – Updated: 2023-06-28 20:13
VLAI?
Summary
Insecure Permissions in Phusion Passenger
Details

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.

Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "RubyGems",
        "name": "passenger"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "5.3.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "5.3.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2018-12027"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-200"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2023-06-09T22:59:06Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2018-06-17T20:29:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "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\u0027s user, then that non-application user can swap that directory with something else, resulting in traffic being redirected to a non-application user\u0027s process through an alternative Unix domain socket.",
  "id": "GHSA-whfx-877c-5p28",
  "modified": "2023-06-28T20:13:40Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:49:24Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12027"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/phusion/passenger"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2018-12027.yml"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Insecure Permissions in Phusion Passenger"
}


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