CVE-2017-11747

MEDIUM

5.5

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1690%

EPSS Percentile11.03th

Published2017年7月30日

Last Modified2026年5月13日

Vulnerability Description

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.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

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Tinyproxy Project

Tinyproxy

<= 1.8.4

References & Advisories

🔗 https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/issues/106

🔗 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00037.html