CVE-2017-14180

CVSS V2 High 7.2 CVSS V3 High 7.8
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-14180
  • Assigner
  • security@ubuntu.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2018-02-02T14:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2018-02-15T13:21:09
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-400 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:apport_project:apport:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.13 2.20.7
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 7.2
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1 Third Party Advisory
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14180 Third Party Advisory
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14180
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14180
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 18:48:44 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 01:41:37 2018-02-02T14:29Z 2018-02-02T14:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 01:41:37 2018-02-15T13:21:09 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 01:41:37 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated