CVE-2017-14159: Openldap

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

slapd in OpenLDAP 2.4.45 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 demonstrated by openldap-initscript.

Affected products

• Openldap Openldap: up to and including 2.4.45
• Oracle Blockchain Platform: before 21.1.2 (fixed in 21.1.2)

Published 2017-09-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.