Privilege Escalation Affecting passenger package, versions <5.3.2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (6th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PASSENGER-22036
- published 20 Jun 2018
- disclosed 12 Jun 2018
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 12 Jun 2018
CVE-2018-12029 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.