High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 20, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-14610
CVE-2017-14610
Description
bareos-dir, bareos-fd, and bareos-sd in bareos-core in Bareos 16.2.6 and earlier create 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.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
1- bugs.bareos.org/view.phpnvdIssue TrackingMitigationVendor Advisory
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