Medium severity5.5OSV Advisory· Published Feb 2, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-6536
CVE-2018-6536
Description
An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1. The daemon creates an icinga2.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 icinga2.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill cat /pathname/icinga2.pid" command, as demonstrated by icinga2.init.d.cmake.
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References
1- github.com/Icinga/icinga2/issues/5991nvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
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