CVE-2017-11746

Tenshi 0.15 creates a tenshi.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 tenshi.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname/tenshi.pid`" command.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-07-30

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-552

Affected products

• Tenshi (Inversepath)

References

• https://github.com/inversepath/tenshi/issues/6
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-18