Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-2147

Title: Openswan

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-2147.

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date May 20, 2011
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 3.6 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-2147: Openswan 2.2.x does not properly restrict permissions for (1) /var/run/starter.pid, related to starter.c in the IPsec starter, and (2) /var/lock/subsys/ipsec, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing a PID to a file, or possibly bypass disk quotas by writing arbitrary data to a file, as demonstrated by files with 0666 permissions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1784.

Impacted Vendors

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openswan 1

Reference Links

http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00012.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00013.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00018.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67822 http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00012.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00013.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00018.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67822
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
3.6
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-2147 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.