CVE-2017-12847

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium

CVSS6.3

Exploit probability—

ProductNagios

PublishedAug 23, 2017

First seenAug 23, 2017

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-20

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
nagios nagios	v ≤ 4.3.2	—

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