CVE-2017-12847
CVE-2017-12847
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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.
CVSS 6.3 · Medium · EPSS 0.8%
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
n/a
- Versions
- n/a: Affected
No fix published
nagios3 Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
- Versions
- 3.5.1-1ubuntu4
- 3.5.1.dfsg-2ubuntu1
- 3.5.1.dfsg-2ubuntu2
- 3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1
- 3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.1
- 3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.2
- 3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.3
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
nagios3 Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
- Versions
- 3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu8
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
Original sources
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-20
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/3baffa78bafebbbdf9f448890ba5a952ea2d73cb
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/1b197346d490df2e2d3b1dcce5ac6134ad0c8752
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/blob/master/Changelog
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100403
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/404
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12847