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

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-06-21T15:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T04:24:12.056Z

Reserved: 2018-06-21T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2018-12615

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

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

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

Link: CVE-2018-12615

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-05-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-12615 - Bugzilla