CVE-2017-14609

The server daemons in Kannel 1.5.0 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, as demonstrated by bearerbox.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-09-20

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-665

Affected products

• Kannel (Kannel)

References

• https://redmine.kannel.org/issues/771