VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-14681

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.29%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-09-21
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-665

Primary references