VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-14179

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.36%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-02-02
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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 service via resource exhaustion, possibly gain root privileges, or escape from containers.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references