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Privilege Escalation Affecting passenger package, versions <5.3.2

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.04% (6th percentile)
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NVD
7 high
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Red Hat
7.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PASSENGER-22036
  • published 20 Jun 2018
  • disclosed 12 Jun 2018
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 12 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12029 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-264 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade passenger to version 5.3.2 or higher.

Overview

passenger is a modern web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js, optimized for performance, low memory usage and ease of use.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation when a non-standard passenger_instance_registry_dir with insufficiently strict permissions is configured.