CVE-2017-14610 Information

Description

bareos-dir bareos-fd and bareos-sd in bareos-core in Bareos 16.2.6 and earlier create 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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://bugs.bareos.org/view.php?id=847

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