CVE-2018-6536

N/A
Published: February 2, 2018 at 09:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:01 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorIcinga

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%

Description

An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1. The daemon creates an icinga2.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 icinga2.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname/icinga2.pid`" command, as demonstrated by icinga2.init.d.cmake.

Affected

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

2.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 2.8.1

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 (1)

x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/issues/5991

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-732

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