Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rubygem-passenger.src (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published14 Jan 2026
- disclosed29 May 2018
Introduced: 29 May 2018
CVE-2018-12615 (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 rubygem-passenger.src package and not the rubygem-passenger.src 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.