CVE-2017-18240

The Gentoo app-admin/collectd package before 5.7.2-r1 sets the ownership of PID file directory to the collectd account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script sends a SIGKILL (when the service is stopped).

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-03-19

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Collectd (Collectd)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103469
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/628540
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201803-10