CVE-2020-8833
Apport race condition in crash report permissions
02 Description
Apport race condition in crash report permissions
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
- 0.34% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 27.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 4.7 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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
- 2020-04-22 21:15Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 20:53Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-02-10
- Assigning CNA
- canonical
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 5.6)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-367Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race ConditionBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 01936f6f59cb7a4fc65d693362f60ec1f7e1d5bc6a0e7eb3543bfd170e0cc2eb
05 Affected products
06 References
- usn.ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4315-1/
- bugs.launchpad.nethttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1862933
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4315-2https://usn.ubuntu.com/4315-2/
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- apport Fixed in 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.23
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 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- apport Fixed in 2.20.11-0ubuntu22
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+esm4Available 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.