PT-2022-8013 · Smokeping · Smokeping

Michael Orlitzky · Published 2022-09-20 · Updated 2025-05-29 · CVE-2017-20147

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SmokePing versions through 2.7.3-r1

Description The issue allows the smokeping user to cause a denial of service to arbitrary PIDs when the service is stopped by writing arbitrary PIDs to the PID file used by the initscript.

Recommendations For SmokePing versions through 2.7.3-r1, consider restricting write access to the PID file used by the initscript to prevent the smokeping user from writing arbitrary PIDs to it. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-377

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-20147

Affected Products

Smokeping

References · 9

• 🔥 https://bugs.gentoo.org/631140 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-20147 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-20147 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-20147 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-08 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-20147 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-20147 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/50153 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/123976 · Telegram Post