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CVE-2017-14102
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2017-09-01 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-665
Description
MIMEDefang 2.80 and earlier creates 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, as demonstrated by the init-script.in and mimedefang-init.in scripts.
Affected products
- Mimedefang: 2.80
References
- http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2017-August/038077.html
- http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2017-August/038085.html
- http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2017-August/038077.html
- http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2017-August/038085.html
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