CVSS 3.0
6.3 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HCVE-2017-12847
Medium (6.3) in nagios nagios. EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 56% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-665
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- nagios:nagios
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100403
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/blob/master/Changelog
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/1b197346d490df2e2d3b1dcce5ac6134ad0c8752
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/3baffa78bafebbbdf9f448890ba5a952ea2d73cb
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/404