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CVE-2011-4339
ipmievd (aka the IPMI event daemon) in OpenIPMI, as used in the ipmitool package 1.8.11 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, Debian…
Low3.6EPSS 0.43%
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- redhat
Description
ipmievd (aka the IPMI event daemon) in OpenIPMI, as used in the ipmitool package 1.8.11 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora 16, and other products uses 0666 permissions for its ipmievd.pid PID file, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing to this file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 41 days later
· 41 days later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low3.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.43% · top 63% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.6.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (15)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- MDVSA-2011:196 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 47228 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 47376 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742837 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- impitool-pid-dos(71763) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 51036 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-2376 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2011:1814 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-17071 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20111213 OpenIPMI: IPMI event daemon creates PID file with world writeable permissions (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 47173 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-17065 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0123 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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