CVE-2017-11746: Inversepath Tenshi

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Inversepath Tenshi: version 0.15 only

Published 2017-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.