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CVE-2018-6536
CVE-2018-6536
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 0.03% · 9.2th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.03%
9.2th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:20.04:LTS | icinga2 | 2.11.2-1ubuntu3, 0, 2.10.5-1build1 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | icinga2 | 0, 2.14.1-1, 2.14.2-1 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | icinga2 | 2.12.3-1, 2.13.1-1, 2.13.2-1 |
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | icinga2 | 0, 2.8.1-0ubuntu2, 2.7.0-1 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | icinga2 | 2.15.0-1, 2.14.5-1, 2.14.6-1 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | icinga2 | 2.4.1-1, 2.4.0-1, 2.3.11-1 |
Exploit Intelligence
Timeline
- Feb 2, 2018 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 2, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6536 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/issues/5991 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6536 third-party-advisory