CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-12847
6.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-08-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.3 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-665
Description
Nagios Core before 4.3.3 creates a nagios.lock PID file after dropping privileges to a non-root account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this non-root account for nagios.lock modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname/nagios.lock`" command.
Affected configurations
• nagios nagios (<= 4.3.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100403 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/blob/master/Changelog Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/1b197346d490df2e2d3b1dcce5ac6134ad0c8752 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/3baffa78bafebbbdf9f448890ba5a952ea2d73cb Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/404 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-20 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100403 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/blob/master/Changelog Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/1b197346d490df2e2d3b1dcce5ac6134ad0c8752 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/3baffa78bafebbbdf9f448890ba5a952ea2d73cb Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/404 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-20 Third Party Advisory