CVE-2017-14610: Bareos

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

bareos-dir, bareos-fd, and bareos-sd in bareos-core in Bareos 16.2.6 and earlier create 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.

Affected products

• Bareos Bareos: up to and including 16.2.6

Published 2017-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.