CVE-2017-18226 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://bugs.gentoo.org/631068

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5