Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:2018120270000000
Revision Date:2018-06-17Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-12027 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-12027
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND passenger: while related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore this issue (note: 'reached end-of-life').
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