CVE-2017-14681: p3scan Project p3scan

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• p3scan Project p3scan: up to and including 3.0

Published 2017-09-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.