CVE-2017-18284

high

Description

The Gentoo app-backup/burp package before 2.1.32 sets the ownership of the PID file directory to the burp account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script sends a SIGKILL.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-03

https://bugs.gentoo.org/628770

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-04

Updated: 2019-10-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: High