Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 30, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-11747
CVE-2017-11747
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 products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
2- github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/issues/106nvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00037.htmlnvd
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