CVE-2017-14159

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14159
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14159.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-14159
Downstream
Published
2017-09-05T18:29:00.133Z
Modified
2026-03-14T09:24:33.132999Z
Severity
  • 4.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

slapd in OpenLDAP 2.4.45 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, as demonstrated by openldap-initscript.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/openldap/openldap

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/openldap/openldap
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
40421915e08ed1a10b5703973116705a94190ab0
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.4.45"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
AUTOCONF_2_57
FreeBSD_3_3
LDAP_3_3+prerelease
LDBM_POST_GIANT_RWLOCK
LDBM_PRE_GIANT_RWLOCK
NO_SLAP_OP_BLOCKS
OPENDLAP_REL_ENG_2_2_MP
OPENLDAP_AC_BP
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_1_0_0
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_1_BP
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_1_MP
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_2_BP
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_2_MP
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_3_BP
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_3_MP
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_0ALPHA
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_10
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_11
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_12
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_13
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_14
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_15
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_16
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_17
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_18
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_19
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_1ALPHA
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_20
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_21
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_22
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_23
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_24
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_25
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_26
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_27
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_28
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_29
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_2ALPHA
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_30
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_32
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_33
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_34
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_35
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_36
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_37
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_38
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_39
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_3ALPHA
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_40
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_41
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_42
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_43
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_44
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_45
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_4ALPHA
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_5BETA
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_6
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_7
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_8
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_9
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_BP
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_MP
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_BP
OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_MP
OPENLDAP_SLAPD_BACK_LDAP
UMICH_LDAP_3_3
LMDB_0.*
LMDB_0.9.15
LMDB_0.9.16
LMDB_0.9.17
LMDB_0.9.18
LMDB_0.9.19
LMDB_0.9.20
LMDB_0.9.21

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14159.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "21.1.2"
            }
        ]
    }
]