Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-14177

Title: Apport Project Apport Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-14177.

CWE Category CWE-400

Published Date Feb 02, 2018

Modified Date Nov 21, 2024

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.39%

Vulnerability Summary

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 resource exhaustion or possibly gain root privileges. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1324.

Impacted Vendors

apport_project 1

apport 1

Reference Links

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372 https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14177 https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1 https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372 https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14177 https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2017-14177 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

November 21, 2024 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 02, 2018 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.