CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-14681

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-09-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-09-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-665

Description

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 configurations

• p3scan project p3scan (<= 3.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness

References