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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.140255
Category:Web Servers
Title:Tinyproxy < 1.10.0 DoS Vulnerability
Summary:Tinyproxy is prone to a denial of service (DoS); vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Tinyproxy is prone to a denial of service (DoS)
vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
Tinyproxy 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' command.

Affected Software/OS:
Tinyproxy versions prior to 1.10.0.

Solution:
Update to version 1.10.0 or later.

CVSS Score:
2.1

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-11747
https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/issues/106
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00037.html
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