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CVE-2017-12847
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-08-23T21:29:00.200 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:04:01.230

Summary

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.

Affected products

nagios — nagios

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References

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