# CVE-2018-6536: An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-02-02 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1. The daemon creates an icinga2.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 icinga2.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname/icinga2.pid`" command, as demonstrated by icinga2.init.d.cmake.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/issues/5991

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