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CVE details

CVE-2017-12847

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.

Score
6.3 medium
Published
2017-08-23
Links
NVD · cve.org

Affected ports (2)

PortPackageVersionStatusMaintainer
net-mgmt/nagiosnagios3.5.1_12unaddressedports@FreeBSD.org
net-mgmt/nagiosnagios-monplugins3.5.1_12unaddressedports@FreeBSD.org

Template for a VuXML entry

Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.

  <vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
    <topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
    <affects>
      <package>
	<name>nagios</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>nagios-monplugins</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
    </affects>
    <description>
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<p>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.</p>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <cvename>CVE-2017-12847</cvename>
      <url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12847</url>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>2017-08-23</discovery>
      <entry>2026-10-25</entry>
    </dates>
  </vuln>