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GHSA-MV59-W8CF-G9Q7

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:16 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:30

Details

Apport reads and writes information on a crashed process to /proc/pid with elevated privileges. Apport then determines which user the crashed process belongs to by reading /proc/pid through get_pid_info() in data/apport. An unprivileged user could exploit this to read information about a privileged running process by exploiting PID recycling. This information could then be used to obtain ASLR offsets for a process with an existing memory corruption vulnerability. The initial fix introduced regressions in the Python Apport library due to a missing argument in Report.add_proc_environ in apport/report.py. It also caused an autopkgtest failure when reading /proc/pid and with Python 2 compatibility by reading /proc maps. The initial and subsequent regression fixes are in 2.20.11-0ubuntu16, 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.6, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.12, 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.22 and 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm3.

Severity

3.3 (Low)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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CVE-2019-15790 (GCVE-0-2019-15790)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-04-27 23:25 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:25

Title

Apport reads PID files with elevated privileges

Summary

Severity

2.8 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Assigner

canonical mitre root

References

11 references

URL	Tags
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/…
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4171-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4171-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4171-3/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4171-4/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4171-5/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/…
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/…
https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1854237
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172858/Ubunt…
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/9

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Canonical	Apport	Affected: 2.14.1 , < 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm3 (custom) Affected: 2.20.1 , < 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.22 (custom) Affected: 2.20.9 , < 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.12 (custom) Affected: 2.20.11 , < 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.6 (custom)

Date Public

2019-10-30 00:00

Credits

Kevin Backhouse

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