Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ruby193-rubygem-passenger  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-RUBY193RUBYGEMPASSENGER-9887987
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed29 May 2018

Introduced: 29 May 2018

CVE-2018-12615  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-271  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby193-rubygem-passenger package and not the ruby193-rubygem-passenger package as distributed by RHEL.

An issue was discovered in switchGroup() in agent/ExecHelper/ExecHelperMain.cpp in Phusion Passenger before 5.3.2. 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.