CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-18240
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-03-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The Gentoo app-admin/collectd package before 5.7.2-r1 sets the ownership of PID file directory to the collectd account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script sends a SIGKILL (when the service is stopped).
Affected configurations
• collectd collectd (<= 5.7.2)
• collectd collectd 5.7.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103469 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/628540 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201803-10 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103469 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/628540 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201803-10 Vendor Advisory