CVE-2017-14610
N/A
Published: September 20, 2017 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:06 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBareos
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
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.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
References (1)
x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingMitigationVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.bareos.org/view.php?id=847Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-665
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