CVE-2011-4339

Status: ModifiedLow (3.6)—
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.
CVSS

Version: 2.0
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Base score: 3.6
Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.43%
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 35
Score date: 10/5/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)

Ipmitool Project — Ipmitool
CWEs

CWE-732
References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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