Description
Apport 2.13 through 2.20.7 does not properly handle crashes originating from a PID namespace allowing local users to create certain files as root which an attacker could leverage to perform a denial of service via resource exhaustion or possibly gain root privileges, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-14179.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14180
Mailing List
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/9
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0041
EPSS Percentile
33.2%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-400
Status
published
Products (6)
apport_project/apport
2.13 - 2.20.7
canonical/ubuntu_linux
14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
17.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
17.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.04
Published
Feb 02, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026