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CVE-2017-14610
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-09-20T18:29:01.610 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:06:28.833

Summary

bareos-dir, bareos-fd, and bareos-sd in bareos-core in Bareos 16.2.6 and earlier create 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.

Affected products

bareos — bareos

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References

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