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CVE-2017-14681
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-09-21T23:29:00.273 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:06:35.013

Summary

The daemon in P3Scan 3.0_rc1 and earlier creates a p3scan.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 p3scan.pid modification before a root script executes a "kill `cat /pathname/p3scan.pid`" command, as demonstrated by etc/init.d/p3scan.

Affected products

p3scan_project — p3scan

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References

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