CVE catalog
CVE-2017-12847
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12847
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Published
- Updated
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.79% · Oct 25, 2026
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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | nagios3 | 16.04 | 3.5.1-1ubuntu4 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | nagios3 | 16.04 | 3.5.1.dfsg-2ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | nagios3 | 16.04 | 3.5.1.dfsg-2ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | nagios3 | 16.04 | 3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | nagios3 | 16.04 | 3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | nagios3 | 16.04 | 3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | nagios3 | 16.04 | 3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu1.3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | nagios3 | 18.04 | 3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu8 | vulnerable |
Fixed-version evidence
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/opensuse-su-2024_11073-1.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12847]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2017/cve-2017-12847.json]
[FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database] · [Red Hat security advisories and VEX] · [SUSE security advisories and VEX]