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01 Record

CVE-2017-14179

Apport before 2.13 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

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: canonical
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
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02 Description

Apport before 2.13 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

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
0.35% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 29.0% 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
2024-09-16 20:42Z2 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
26bee3dd98e1a8a932220c8d15281a4fd5f66cb69afd887d71eef5a50077c95c

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
n/aApportbefore 2.13—

06 References