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CVE-2017-11746
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-07-30T16:29:00.187 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:02:17.987

Summary

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.

Affected products

inversepath — tenshi

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References

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