Nagios Core before 4.3.3 creates a nagios.lock 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 nagios.lock modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname/nagios.lock`" command.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-08-23T21:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T18:51:06.962Z
Reserved: 2017-08-14T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-12847
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-08-23T21:29:00.200
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-12847
 Redhat
                        Redhat