Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in net-analyzer/smokeping - CVE-2017-20147
Published: September 26, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU67641
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-20147
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Gentoo
Affected software:
net-analyzer/smokeping
net-analyzer/smokeping
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the initscript in smokeping on Gentoo uses a PID file that is writable by the smokeping user. A local user can write an arbitrary number to the PID file and prevent smokeping from starting.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-20147
Install updates from vendor's website.