- Description
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.3
- Impact score
- 5.2
- Exploitability score
- 1
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- MEDIUM
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.3
- Impact score
- 9.2
- Exploitability score
- 3.4
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-665
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
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