6.3
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-12847

Published: 23/08/2017 Updated: 03/10/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.3 | Impact Score: 9.2 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.3 | Impact Score: 5.2 | Exploitability Score: 1
VMScore: 561
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Nagios Core prior to 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.

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