CVE-2026-72694 Mrtg: mrtg daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via pid file path manipulation

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

Advisory ROSA-SA-2021-1935

Software: openldap 2.4.44 OS: Cobalt 7.9 CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14159 CVE-Crit: MEDIUM CVE-DESC: slapd in OpenLDAP 2.4.45 and earlier creates a PID file after dropping the privileges of a non-root account, which could allow local users to kill arbitrary processes using access to that non-root account t...

GLSA-201810-08 : PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201810-08 PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PostgreSQL. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. In addition it was discovered that Gentoos PostgreSQL installati...

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...

Command injection

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...