CVE-2018-6536

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-6536
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-02-02 09:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1. The daemon creates an icinga2.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 icinga2.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname/icinga2.pid`" command, as demonstrated by icinga2.init.d.cmake.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-732

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Icinga Icinga All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Partial privilege escalation via PID file manipulation · Issue #5991 · Icinga/icinga2 · GitHub MISC github.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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