CVE-2017-14180
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
02 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
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
- 0.44% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 37.9% 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
- 2025-11-03 19:25Z11 MO 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
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 8d7937fc8af5e156c1ca9ca5ab541ea5163de104a12c2c951d655215bedc0ca8
05 Affected products
06 References
- 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
- people.canonical.comhttps://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14180
- seclists.orghttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/9
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.