{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11746","details":"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.","modified":"2025-07-16T07:50:36.226128Z","published":"2017-07-30T16:29:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-11746"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-11746"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/inversepath/tenshi/issues/6"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-11746"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"tenshi","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/tenshi@0.13-2+deb7u1~build0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.13-2+deb7u1~build0.14.04.1"}]}],"versions":["0.13-2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"tenshi","binary_version":"0.13-2+deb7u1~build0.14.04.1"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11746.json"}},{"package":{"name":"tenshi","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/tenshi@0.13-2+deb7u1~build0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.13-2+deb7u1~build0.16.04.1"}]}],"versions":["0.13-2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"tenshi","binary_version":"0.13-2+deb7u1~build0.16.04.1"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11746.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}