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CVE-2017-14681

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 0.29%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-09-21 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2017-14681
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.29%

Original NVD 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.