CWE Code: 665
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 4.6
CWE Name:  Improper Initialization
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): PARTIAL/PARTIAL/PARTIAL
Published Date: 2017-09-01
Last Modified Date: 2019-10-03