Exploits Discovered - Published CVE-2017-12847

Title: Nagios privilege escalation via PID file manipulation

Author: Michael Orlitzky

Fixed in: Commits 1b19734 and 3baffa7; Nagios 4.3.3

Nagios 4.3.2 and earlier allowed the runtime account to manipulate PID information later used by a root-run service script. A crafted PID could cause that script to send SIGTERM to an attacker-selected root process.

Michael Orlitzky’s detailed advisory provides the full technical disclosure and remediation references for CVE-2017-12847.

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