VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-8998

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.22%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-07-12
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

An information disclosure vulnerability leading to a potential local escalation of privilege in the procfs service (the /proc filesystem) of BlackBerry QNX Software Development Platform version(s) 6.5.0 SP1 and earlier could allow an attacker to potentially gain unauthorized access to a chosen process address space.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-413: Improper Resource Locking

Primary references