UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12847

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Source

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-12847

Import Source

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12847.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12847

Upstream

CVE-2017-12847

Published

2017-08-23T21:29:00Z

Modified

2025-10-24T04:46:27Z

Severity

6.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Ubuntu - low

Summary

[none]

Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / nagios3

Package

Name: nagios3
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/nagios3@3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.3?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*

3.5.1-1ubuntu4

3.5.1.dfsg-2ubuntu1

3.5.1.dfsg-2ubuntu2

3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1

3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.1

3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.2

3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "nagios3",
            "binary_version": "3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "nagios3-cgi",
            "binary_version": "3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "nagios3-common",
            "binary_version": "3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "nagios3-core",
            "binary_version": "3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.3"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12847.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / nagios3