{"id":"CVE-2017-18226","details":"The Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 package through 2.6.1 sets the ownership of /var/run/jabber to the jabber account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script executes a \"kill -TERM `cat /var/run/jabber/filename.pid`\" command.","modified":"2026-10-24T10:30:34.911647956Z","published":"2018-03-12T04:29:00.273Z","database_specific":{},"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.gentoo.org/631068"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/jabberd2/jabberd2","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"d3a2b96bea5b36cffd6e4d3e1eb6a47d2586bd1f"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"source":"CPE_RANGE","cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:jabberd2:jabberd2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","range":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"2.6.1"}]}]}}],"versions":["jabberd-2.6.1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-18226.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}