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CVE-2017-11746

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-552

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.

Affected products

• Inversepath Tenshi: 0.15

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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