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CVE-2017-18226

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 0.25%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-03-12 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2017-18226
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.25%

Original NVD Description

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.