CVE-2017-14102 Information

Description

MIMEDefang 2.80 and earlier creates a 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 PID file modification before a root script executes a \kill cat /pathname\ command as demonstrated by the init-script.in and mimedefang-init.in scripts.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2017-August/038077.html http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2017-August/038085.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8