{"id":"UBUNTU-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":"2025-10-24T04:46:31Z","published":"2017-09-21T23:29:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-14681"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14681"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://sourceforge.net/p/p3scan/bugs/33/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14681"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"p3scan","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/p3scan@2:2.3.2-8.1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["2:2.3.2-8.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"2:2.3.2-8.1","binary_name":"p3scan"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14681.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}