CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-14609

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-09-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-09-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-665

Description

The server daemons in Kannel 1.5.0 and earlier create 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 bearerbox.

Affected configurations

• kannel kannel (<= 1.5.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness

References