CWE Code: 732
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 4.9
CWE Name:  Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): NONE/NONE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2018-02-02
Last Modified Date: 2019-10-03
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CWE Code: 732
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 4.9
CWE Name:  Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): NONE/NONE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2018-02-02
Last Modified Date: 2019-10-03
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