CWE Code: 269
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 2.1
CWE Name:  Improper Privilege Management
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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): NONE/NONE/PARTIAL
Published Date: 2017-07-30
Last Modified Date: 2019-10-03