Back
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…
Medium6.3EPSS 0.79%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.79% · top 44% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
Loading the EPSS history…
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- GLSA-201710-20 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/3baffa78bafebbbdf9f448890ba5a952ea2d73cb (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/1b197346d490df2e2d3b1dcce5ac6134ad0c8752 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/blob/master/Changelog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 100403 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/404 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2017-12847)Record last updated .