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CVE-2017-11747
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-07-30T16:29:00.250 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:02:18.110

Summary

main.c in Tinyproxy 1.8.4 and earlier creates a /run/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.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 tinyproxy.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /run/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.pid`" command.

Affected products

tinyproxy_project — tinyproxy

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References

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