Vulnerability CVE-2017-13649


Published: 2017-08-23   Modified: 2017-08-24

Description:
UnrealIRCd 4.0.13 and earlier creates 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. NOTE: the vendor indicates that there is no common or recommended scenario in which a root script would execute this kill command.

Type:

CWE-665

(Improper Initialization)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Unrealircd -> Unrealircd 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100507
https://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=4990

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