CVE-2017-11747

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…

published July 30, 2017

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
20.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00292 · 20.5th percentile
Published
2017-07-30T16:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 JUL 16:00Z
    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…
    cvelistv5