Vulnerability in passenger
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A vulnerability tracked as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12029 has been found in passenger.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
What to do: upgrade passenger to 5.0.30-1.1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "passenger DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12029" on the vendor's site.
DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12029 (passenger)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 5.0.30-1.1 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in passenger.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of passenger.
Severity: ?. Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to 5.0.30-1.1.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'passenger' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1
Identify exposureidentify
grep -r 'passenger' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
passengerを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2
Apply patchpatch
Upgrade passenger to 5.0.30-1.1ステージング環境で 5.0.30-1.1 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3
Post-deployment verificationverify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | passenger |
< 5.0.30-1.1 |
5.0.30-1.1 |
| Debian:13 | passenger |
< 5.0.30-1.1 |
5.0.30-1.1 |
| Debian:14 | passenger |
< 5.0.30-1.1 |
5.0.30-1.1 |
Original description The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org