CVE-2017-11746 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5