Arbitrary Process Killing Vulnerability in Tenshi 0.15

CVE-2017-11746 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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