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CVE-2017-18240

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 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: 2018-03-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Gentoo app-admin/collectd package before 5.7.2-r1 sets the ownership of PID file directory to the collectd account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script sends a SIGKILL (when the service is stopped).

Affected products

• Collectd: through 5.7.2; 5.7.2-r1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103469
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/628540
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201803-10
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103469
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/628540
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201803-10

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