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…

published August 23, 2017

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
55.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00786 · 55.7th percentile
Published
2017-08-23T21:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 AUG 21:00Z
    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…
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