cve-2018-12029
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-06-17 20:00
Modified
2024-08-05 08:24
Severity ?
Summary
A race condition in the nginx module in Phusion Passenger 3.x through 5.x before 5.3.2 allows local escalation of privileges when a non-standard passenger_instance_registry_dir with insufficiently strict permissions is configured. Replacing a file with a symlink after the file was created, but before it was chowned, leads to the target of the link being chowned via the path. Targeting sensitive files such as root's crontab file allows privilege escalation.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/phusion-passenger-priv-escThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/phusion-passenger-priv-escThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02Third Party Advisory
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