Vulnerability CVE-2017-11746


Published: 2017-07-30

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.

Type:

CWE-552

(Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Inversepath -> Tenshi 

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

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