{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2017-08-17T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "systemd: kills privileged process if unprivileged PIDFile was tampered",
    "id" : "1662867",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1662867"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "4.4",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-250",
  "details" : [ "It was discovered systemd does not correctly check the content of PIDFile files before using it to kill processes. When a service is run from an unprivileged user (e.g. User field set in the service file), a local attacker who is able to write to the PIDFile of the mentioned service may use this flaw to trick systemd into killing other services and/or privileged processes. Versions before v237 are vulnerable.", "It was discovered systemd does not correctly check the content of PIDFile files before using it to kill processes. When a service is run from an unprivileged user (e.g. User field set in the service file), a local attacker who is able to write to the PIDFile of the mentioned service may use this flaw to trick systemd into killing other services and/or privileged processes." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7",
    "release_date" : "2020-02-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHBA-2020:0547",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.4::el7",
    "package" : "ansible-tower-34/ansible-tower-memcached:1.4.15-28"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7",
    "release_date" : "2020-02-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHBA-2020:0547",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.4::el7",
    "package" : "ansible-tower-35/ansible-tower-memcached:1.4.15-28"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4 for RHEL 7",
    "release_date" : "2020-02-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHBA-2020:0547",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.4::el7",
    "package" : "ansible-tower-37/ansible-tower-memcached-rhel7:1.4.15-28"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2019-08-06T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:2091",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "systemd-0:219-67.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "systemd",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16888\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16888" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2018-16888",
  "csaw" : false
}