CVE-2018-12027

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.

Weakness classification

• nvd@nist.gov: CWE-200

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory