FKIE_CVE-2017-7560

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-09-13 17:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:24
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
It was found that rhnsd PID files are created as world-writable that allows local attackers to fill the disks or to kill selected processes.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1480550Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1480550Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat rhnsd -
To clipboard 

{
  "affected": [
    {
      "affectedData": [
        {
          "product": "rhnsd",
          "vendor": "Red Hat, Inc.",
          "versions": [
            {
              "status": "affected",
              "version": "n/a"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "source": "secalert@redhat.com"
    }
  ],
  "configurations": [
    {
      "nodes": [
        {
          "cpeMatch": [
            {
              "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:rhnsd:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "matchCriteriaId": "43D0350E-D828-4DD9-AEFD-29F6FFDD276D",
              "vulnerable": true
            }
          ],
          "negate": false,
          "operator": "OR"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "It was found that rhnsd PID files are created as world-writable that allows local attackers to fill the disks or to kill selected processes."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "Se ha descubierto que los archivos PID de rhnsd se crean de modo que cualquier usuario pueda modificarlos, lo que permite que atacantes locales llenen los discos o terminen procesos seleccionados."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2017-7560",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T01:24:36.763",
  "metrics": {
    "cvssMetricV2": [
      {
        "acInsufInfo": false,
        "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM",
        "cvssData": {
          "accessComplexity": "LOW",
          "accessVector": "LOCAL",
          "authentication": "NONE",
          "availabilityImpact": "COMPLETE",
          "baseScore": 4.9,
          "confidentialityImpact": "NONE",
          "integrityImpact": "NONE",
          "vectorString": "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C",
          "version": "2.0"
        },
        "exploitabilityScore": 3.9,
        "impactScore": 6.9,
        "obtainAllPrivilege": false,
        "obtainOtherPrivilege": false,
        "obtainUserPrivilege": false,
        "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
        "type": "Primary",
        "userInteractionRequired": false
      }
    ],
    "cvssMetricV30": [
      {
        "cvssData": {
          "attackComplexity": "LOW",
          "attackVector": "LOCAL",
          "availabilityImpact": "HIGH",
          "baseScore": 5.5,
          "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM",
          "confidentialityImpact": "NONE",
          "integrityImpact": "NONE",
          "privilegesRequired": "LOW",
          "scope": "UNCHANGED",
          "userInteraction": "NONE",
          "vectorString": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
          "version": "3.0"
        },
        "exploitabilityScore": 1.8,
        "impactScore": 3.6,
        "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
        "type": "Primary"
      }
    ]
  },
  "published": "2017-09-13T17:29:00.930",
  "references": [
    {
      "source": "secalert@redhat.com",
      "tags": [
        "Issue Tracking",
        "Third Party Advisory",
        "VDB Entry"
      ],
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1480550"
    },
    {
      "source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
      "tags": [
        "Issue Tracking",
        "Third Party Advisory",
        "VDB Entry"
      ],
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1480550"
    }
  ],
  "sourceIdentifier": "secalert@redhat.com",
  "vulnStatus": "Modified",
  "weaknesses": [
    {
      "description": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "CWE-377"
        }
      ],
      "source": "secalert@redhat.com",
      "type": "Secondary"
    },
    {
      "description": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "CWE-732"
        }
      ],
      "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
      "type": "Primary"
    }
  ]
}



Log in or create an account to share your comment.




Tags
Taxonomy of the tags.





Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.