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CVE-2017-12847
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…
- 6.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.79%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 44% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 9 days later
· 9 days later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | 3.0 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.79% · top 44% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- GLSA-201710-20 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/3baffa78bafebbbdf9f448890ba5a952ea2d73cb (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/1b197346d490df2e2d3b1dcce5ac6134ad0c8752 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/blob/master/Changelog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 100403 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/404 (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)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-4384 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2017-12847)Record last updated .