CVE-2017-20147: Smokeping

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the ebuild package through smokeping-2.7.3-r1 for SmokePing on Gentoo, the initscript uses a PID file that is writable by the smokeping user. By writing arbitrary PIDs to that file, the smokeping user can cause a denial of service to arbitrary PIDs when the service is stopped.

Affected products

• Smokeping Smokeping: up to and including 2.7.3-r1

Published 2022-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.