Privilege Escalation via p3scan.pid File Manipulation
CVE-2017-14681 · LOW Severity
AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.
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