Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:201812027000
Revision Date:2018-06-17Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-12027 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - 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 14.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) is installed.
  • AND The vulnerability of the 'ruby-passenger' package in trusty is not known (status: 'needs-triage'). It is pending evaluation.
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