{"id":"CVE-2017-11747","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.","modified":"2026-03-14T09:21:41.388232Z","published":"2017-07-30T16:29:00.250Z","related":["openSUSE-SU-2024:0119-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:11465-1"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00037.html"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/issues/106"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"1115251555e88c9069027a63f5e38a377d5f1b89"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"1.8.4"}]}}],"versions":["1.7.1","1.8.0","1.8.1","1.8.2","1.8.3","1.8.4"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-11747.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}