CVE-2017-18226 Privilege escalation in n/a
Local attackers can escalate privileges or cause denial of service by modifying PID files in a world-writable directory before root scripts execute kill commands.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-18226?
CVE-2017-18226 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 12 Mar 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-732
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-18226?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Jabberd2 Jabberd2.
How do I fix CVE-2017-18226?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-18226 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2017-18226 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-18226 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18226, GHSA-6mhg-qh56-v8jg.