Detections
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SCA: security update for passenger (GHSA-jjcj-fgfm-9g9r)
high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432700
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- 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. (CVE-2018-12029)
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Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 432700
Version: Revision 1.3
Type: Local
Family: SCA Checks
Published: 8/11/2025
Updated: 7/2/2026
Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.9
Percentile: 57.12
Vendor
Vendor Severity: High
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.4
Temporal Score: 3.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12029
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7
Temporal Score: 6.1
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2018
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2018-12029
cwe: CWE-362