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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-10-03T16:22:07

Updated: 2022-10-03T16:22:07

Reserved: 2022-10-03T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2018-12615

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-06-21T15:29:00.367

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223


Link: CVE-2018-12615

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