CVE-2017-13649

MEDIUM

UnrealIRCd <4.0.13 - Local Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

UnrealIRCd 4.0.13 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. NOTE: the vendor indicates that there is no common or recommended scenario in which a root script would execute this kill command.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=4990
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100507

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0028
EPSS Percentile 20.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-665
Status published
Products (1)
unrealircd/unrealircd < 4.0.13
Published Aug 23, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026