Name: CVE-2017-18226: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2018-03-12T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2017-18226, CWE-732, CVSS 5.5, EPSS 0.00254

The Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 package through 2.6.1 sets the ownership of /var/run/jabber to the jabber account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill -TERM `cat /var/run/jabber/filename.pid`" command.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	No solution exists	May 15, 2025	Mar 12, 2018
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade net-im/jabberd2.	Mar 19, 2018	Mar 12, 2018

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CVSS Details

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