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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.7

CVE-2017-14159 json

slapd in OpenLDAP 2.4.45 and earlier creates a PID file after dropping privileges to a non-root account, which might allow local users to k…

published 2017-09-05 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-5669

cvss
4.7
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 28%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

slapd in OpenLDAP 2.4.45 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 openldap-initscript.

Patch / fix

  • oracle blockchain_platform 21.1.2
  • openldap Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +15 more 2.4.46-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-14159

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-14159 updated cvss 4.4

openldap: Privilege escalation via PID file manipulation

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 openldap Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 openldap, compat-openldap, openldap-clients, openldap-servers, openldap-servers-sql Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 openldap, compat-openldap, openldap-clients, openldap-servers, openldap-servers-sql Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 openldap Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1 openldap Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 openldap
    +1 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 3 openldap
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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