{"id":"CVE-2017-14681","details":"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.","modified":"2026-03-14T09:24:31.585479Z","published":"2017-09-21T23:29:00.273Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://sourceforge.net/p/p3scan/bugs/33/"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"3.0"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14681.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}