{"cve":"CVE-2018-12028","nvd":{"published":"2018-06-17T20:29:00.463","modified":"2026-06-17T01:37:01.830","status":"Modified","description":"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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.0","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.8},"cwes":["CWE-732"],"references":["https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2","https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02","https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2","https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02"],"products":["phusion:passenger"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:51:47.459859389+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2018-12028","score":0.00886,"percentile":0.59266,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-jjhj-8gx7-x836","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-jjhj-8gx7-x836","summary":"Incorrect Access Control in Phusion Passenger","modified":"2024-02-16T08:04:43.770355Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","name":"passenger","purl":"pkg:gem/passenger","ranges":[">=5.3.0 <5.3.2"],"fixed":["5.3.2"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}