Vulnerability in Openswan

CVE-2011-2147

Openswan 2.2.x does not properly restrict permissions for (1) /var/run/starter.pid, related to starter.c in the IPsec starter, and (2) /var/lock/subsys/ipsec, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing a PID to a file, or possibly bypass disk quotas by writing arbitrary data to a file, as demonstrated by files with 0666 permissions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1784.

EPSS: 0.003 (27.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Openswan — versions 2.2.0, 2.2.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References