# Phusion Passenger SpawningKit Contains Arbitrary Read/Write Vulnerability

Advisory record · `GHSA-7cv3-gvmc-8mq5`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-7cv3-gvmc-8mq5` · `CVE-2018-12026`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 9.8 Critical
- **Critical:** Yes: CVSS 9+
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-59](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/59.html)
- **Tags:** [Path traversal](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/path-traversal.md)
- **Published:** 14 May 2022
- **Updated:** 20 Feb 2024
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 14 May 2022, 01:27 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Critical

Critical, because:

- CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

## Affected packages

- `passenger` (RubyGems): affected `>=5.3.0, <5.3.2`; fixed in `5.3.2`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 9.8 Critical, CVSS 3.0: `CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`, from GitHub Advisory Database

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.019, the 80th percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 14 May 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-7cv3-gvmc-8mq5](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7cv3-gvmc-8mq5)
- [OSV: GHSA-7cv3-gvmc-8mq5](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-7cv3-gvmc-8mq5)
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12026>
- <https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/fd3717a3cd357aa0e80e1e81d4dc94a1eaf928f1>
- <https://blog.phusion.nl/2018/06/12/passenger-5-3-2-various-security-fixes>
- <https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-5-3-2>
- <https://github.com/phusion/passenger>
- <https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2018-12026.yml>
- <https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-02>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-7cv3-gvmc-8mq5>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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