CVE-2019-15790
Apport reads PID files with elevated privileges
02 Description
Apport reads PID files with elevated privileges
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
- 0.52% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 44.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 3.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- 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
- 2020-04-27 23:25Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2025-11-03 19:25Z11 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-08-29
- Assigning CNA
- canonical
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Low (CVSS 2.8)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 5acfd6adaa1ff45d9012d8cd67b517e6bb1a0a495f97cae6ba6b478b9f625f10
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugs.launchpad.nethttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1839795
- usn.ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4171-1/
- usn.ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4171-2/
- usn.ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4171-3/
- usn.ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4171-4/
- usn.ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4171-5/
- bugs.launchpad.nethttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1850929
- bugs.launchpad.nethttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1851806
- bugs.launchpad.nethttps://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1854237
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172858/Ubuntu-Apport-Whoopsie-DoS-Integer-Overflow.html
- seclists.orghttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/9
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- apport Fixed in 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- apport Fixed in 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
- apport Fixed in 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm2Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
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.