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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-23T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T18:51:06.962Z

Reserved: 2017-08-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-12847

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-08-23T21:29:00.200

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-12847

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-07-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-12847 - Bugzilla