Vulnerability in Keepalived

CVE-2011-1784

The pidfile_write function in core/pidfile.c in keepalived 1.2.2 and earlier uses 0666 permissions for the (1) keepalived.pid, (2) checkers.pid, and (3) vrrp.pid files in /var/run/, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by w…

EPSS: 0.004 (29.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Keepalived — versions 0.2.1, 0.2.3, 0.2.6
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References