CVE-2017-14177
Apport through 2.20.7 does not properly handle core dumps from setuid binaries allowing local users to create certain files as root which an attacker could leverage to perform a denial of service via
02 Description
Apport through 2.20.7 does not properly handle core dumps from setuid binaries allowing local users to create certain files as root which an attacker could leverage to perform a denial of service via
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.39% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 32.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-02-02 14:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-17 00:15Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-09-07
- Assigning CNA
- canonical
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 0a4d35c76cf58211369ef2c25e9a679d450bc784ae8a048f55f46f8b9a90280b
05 Affected products
06 References
- people.canonical.comhttps://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14177
- bazaar.launchpad.nethttps://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3480-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1
- launchpad.nethttps://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- apport Fixed in 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.27
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- apport Fixed in 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.12
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.