Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-12847

Title: Nagios

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-12847.

CWE Category CWE-665

Published Date Aug 23, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.3 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.79%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-12847: Nagios Core before 4.3.3 creates a nagios.lock 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 nagios.lock modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname/nagios.lock`" command.

Impacted Vendors

nagios 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100403 https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/blob/master/Changelog https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/1b197346d490df2e2d3b1dcce5ac6134ad0c8752 https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/3baffa78bafebbbdf9f448890ba5a952ea2d73cb https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/404 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-20 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100403 https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/blob/master/Changelog https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/1b197346d490df2e2d3b1dcce5ac6134ad0c8752 https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/3baffa78bafebbbdf9f448890ba5a952ea2d73cb https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/404 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-20

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns