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CVE-2017-14102

N/A
Published: September 1, 2017 at 05:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:05 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorMimedefang

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (2)

x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2017-August/038077.html
x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2017-August/038085.html

CVSS

4.6MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-665

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