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CVE-2018-12027

HIGH · CVSS 8.8 EPSS 1.09%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-06-17 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.8. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2018-12027
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.8
EPSS
1.09%

Original NVD 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.

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