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CVE-2017-18226

NVDCIRCLENISA

EUVD-2017-9358 · Published Mar 12, 2018

The Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 package through 2.6.1 sets the ownership of /var/run/jabber to the jabber account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill -TERM `cat /var/run/jabber/filename.pid`" command.

Technologies

Jabberd2 Jabberd2Gentoo Linux

Weaknesses

CWE-732

CVSS scores

  • v3.05.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.02.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

MITRE ATT&CK

Inferred

Where this vulnerability fits in an attack

Privilege Escalation

References

Potentially impacted assets

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