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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

Published Sep 21, 2017

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

Remediation

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Weaknesses (1)

CWE-665

References (1)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Sep 21, 2017
Updated Sep 17, 2024
Reserved Sep 21, 2017
Link CVE-2017-14681
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2017-14681
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2017-14681