CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-14159

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2017-09-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-09-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-665

Description

slapd in OpenLDAP 2.4.45 and earlier creates a 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 PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname`" command, as demonstrated by openldap-initscript.

Affected configurations

• openldap openldap (<= 2.4.45) • oracle blockchain platform (< 21.1.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness

References