CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.7. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2017-14159
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.7
EPSS
0.35%
Original NVD Description
slapd in OpenLDAP 2.4.45 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, as demonstrated by openldap-initscript.
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