SCA: security update for passenger (GHSA-4284-jfhc-f854)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 409810

Description

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

- An issue was discovered in switchGroup() in agent/ExecHelper/ExecHelperMain.cpp in Phusion Passenger
before 5.3.2. The set of groups (gidset) is not set correctly, leaving it up to randomness (i.e.,
uninitialized memory) which supplementary groups are actually being set while lowering privileges.
(CVE-2018-12615)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4284-jfhc-f854

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 409810

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12615

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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: 6/21/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12615

cwe: CWE-732