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SCA: security update for passenger (GHSA-jjhj-8gx7-x836)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433444

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - An Incorrect Access Control vulnerability in SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 allows a
 Passenger-managed malicious application, upon spawning a child process, to report an arbitrary different
 PID back to Passenger's process manager. If the malicious application then generates an error, it would
 cause Passenger's process manager to kill said reported arbitrary PID. (CVE-2018-12028)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jjhj-8gx7-x836

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433444

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12028

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12028

cwe: CWE-732