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CVE-2017-14180

Date: November 14, 2017

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (7)

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14180
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-14180
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14180
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-14180

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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