CVE-2017-11746

7.5 highEPSS 1.1%

High (7.5) in inversepath tenshi. EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

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

EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 65% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-552
Published: 2017-07-30
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

inversepath:tenshi

References

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

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