{"id":"CVE-2017-14102","details":"MIMEDefang 2.80 and earlier creates a 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 PID file modification before a root script executes a \"kill `cat /pathname`\" command, as demonstrated by the init-script.in and mimedefang-init.in scripts.","modified":"2026-03-14T09:24:26.878238Z","published":"2017-09-01T05:29:00.250Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2017-August/038077.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2017-August/038085.html"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14102.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"2.80"}]}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}