Description
An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1. The daemon creates an icinga2.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 icinga2.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname/icinga2.pid`" command, as demonstrated by icinga2.init.d.cmake.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/issues/5991
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0003
EPSS Percentile
8.6%
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-732
Status
published
Products (1)
icinga/icinga
2.0.0 - 2.8.1
Published
Feb 02, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026