CWE Code: 665
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 2.1
CWE Name:  Improper Initialization
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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): NONE/NONE/PARTIAL
Published Date: 2017-09-21
Last Modified Date: 2019-10-03