Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 21, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-14681
CVE-2017-14681
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 products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
1- sourceforge.net/p/p3scan/bugs/33/nvdMitigationThird Party Advisory
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