CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2011-4339

LOW
3.6
CVSS v2
NVD

Description

ipmievd (aka the IPMI event daemon) in OpenIPMI, as used in the ipmitool package 1.8.11 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora 16, and other products uses 0666 permissions for its ipmievd.pid PID file, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing to this file.

How to fix

Remediation Available
ipmitoolDebian
Fixed in:1.8.11-5CVE-2011-4339
Fixed in:1.8.11-5CVE-2011-4339
Fixed in:1.8.11-5CVE-2011-4339
Fixed in:1.8.11-5CVE-2011-4339

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

0.43%probability of exploitation in 30 days
35thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 35% of all known CVEs.

References

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-732 (Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVESeverityCVSSEPSSExploitedFix
CVE-2011-3923Critical9.889%-Fix
CVE-2018-15379Critical9.886%--
CVE-2018-1000207High7.264%--
CVE-2023-32986High8.863%--
CVE-2021-44521Critical9.155%-Fix
CVE-2018-13374Medium4.338%KEV + RansomFix
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