CVE-2017-11746

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-552

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jul 30, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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