CVE-2011-2147

Openswan 2.2.x - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Openswan 2.2.x does not properly restrict permissions for (1) /var/run/starter.pid, related to starter.c in the IPsec starter, and (2) /var/lock/subsys/ipsec, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing a PID to a file, or possibly bypass disk quotas by writing arbitrary data to a file, as demonstrated by files with 0666 permissions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1784.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00012.html
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00018.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67822
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00013.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0034
EPSS Percentile 26.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (2)
openswan/openswan 2.2.0
openswan/openswan 2.2.1
Published May 20, 2011
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026