CVE-2019-15790CWE-250

Apport reads PID files with elevated privileges

Low · published April 27, 2020

CVSS v3.1
2.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
43.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
2.8 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00523 · 43.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-250 · Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Published
2020-04-27T23:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 APR 23:25Z
    Apport reads PID files with elevated privileges
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