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CVE-2017-14159
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-09-05T18:29:00.133 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:05:41.863

Summary

slapd in OpenLDAP 2.4.45 and earlier creates a 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 PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname`" command, as demonstrated by openldap-initscript.

Affected products

openldap — openldap

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References

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