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ubuntu-cve-2017-14681

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2017-09-21 23:29

Modified

2025-10-24 04:46

Summary

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.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14681	REPORT
	https://sourceforge.net/p/p3scan/bugs/33/	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14681	REPORT

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          {
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            "binary_version": "2:2.3.2-8.1"
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CVE-2017-14681 (GCVE-0-2017-14681)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-21 22:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:26

Summary

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://sourceforge.net/p/p3scan/bugs/33/	x_refsource_MISC

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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ubuntu-cve-2017-14681

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2017-14681 (GCVE-0-2017-14681)

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