CVE-2011-4339: Ipmitool Project Ipmitool

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

Published 2011-12-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.