Halloween Special: Inside a Hacker’s Mind During the Cyber “Kill Chain”

Editor's Note: This blog was originally produced by former Carbon Black Chief Security Strategist and Co-founder, Ben Johnson. In the spirit of Halloween, I’ve decided to demonstrate how a hacker might go after your company, via the full “kill chain.” Muhahaha! Ok, it may not be that scary or as...

CVE-2017-14681

The daemon in P3Scan 3.0rc1 and earlier creates a p3scan.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 p3scan.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill cat...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14681

The daemon in P3Scan 3.0rc1 and earlier creates a p3scan.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 p3scan.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill cat...

CVE-2017-14681

The daemon in P3Scan 3.0rc1 and earlier creates a p3scan.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 p3scan.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill "cat...

PT-2017-13618

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions P3Scan versions 3.0 rc1 and earlier Description The issue allows local users to potentially kill arbitrary processes by modifying the p3scan.pid file, which is created after the daemon drops privileges to a non-root account. This can be...

CVE-2017-14609

The server daemons in Kannel 1.5.0 and earlier create 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"...

CVE-2017-14610

bareos-dir, bareos-fd, and bareos-sd in bareos-core in Bareos 16.2.6 and earlier create 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 scrip...

CVE-2017-14610

bareos-dir, bareos-fd, and bareos-sd in bareos-core in Bareos 16.2.6 and earlier create 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 scrip...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14610

bareos-dir, bareos-fd, and bareos-sd in bareos-core in Bareos 16.2.6 and earlier create 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 scrip...

CVE-2017-14610

bareos-dir, bareos-fd, and bareos-sd in bareos-core in Bareos 16.2.6 and earlier create 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 scrip...

CVE-2017-14609

The server daemons in Kannel 1.5.0 and earlier create 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"...

CVE-2017-14610

Removed by vendor...

CVE-2017-14610

CVE-2017-14610 affects Bareos 16.2.6 and earlier, where bareos-dir, bareos-fd, and bareos-sd in Bareos-core drop privileges to a non-root account and then create a PID file. This behavior can let a local attacker with access to the non-root account modify the PID file before a root script issues ...

PT-2017-13579

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Bareos versions prior to 16.2.7 Description The issue allows local users to potentially kill arbitrary processes by modifying the PID file, which is created after dropping privileges to a non-root account. This can be exploited when a root...

CVE-2017-14610: Improper Initialization

bareos-dir, bareos-fd, and bareos-sd in bareos-core in Bareos 16.2.6 and earlier create 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 scrip...

CVE-2017-14609: Improper Initialization

The server daemons in Kannel 1.5.0 and earlier create 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"...

CVE-2017-14483

flower.initd in the Gentoo dev-python/flower package before 0.9.1-r1 for Celery Flower sets PID file ownership 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...

CVE-2017-14483

flower.initd in the Gentoo dev-python/flower package before 0.9.1-r1 for Celery Flower sets PID file ownership 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...

PT-2017-13482

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Gentoo dev-python/flower package versions prior to 0.9.1-r1 Description The issue allows local users to potentially kill arbitrary processes by modifying the PID file, which has its ownership set to a non-root account. This could be exploited...

PT-2018-9696

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 4.13 Description: The issue might allow local users to cause a denial of service. This is related to the kill something info function in kernel/signal.c, which can be affected when an unspecified architecture an...