github - ghsa-r3gc-6285-7fj7

ghsa-r3gc-6285-7fj7

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:27

Modified

2022-05-13 01:27

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

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.

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CVE-2017-11747 (GCVE-0-2017-11747)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-07-30 16:00

Modified

2024-08-05 18:19

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/issues/106	x_refsource_MISC
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00037.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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