CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2020-8833

Time-of-check Time-of-use Race Condition vulnerability on crash report ownership change in Apport allows for a possible privilege escalation opportunity. If fs.protected_symlinks is disabled, this can be exploited between the os.open and os.chown calls when the Apport cron script clears out crash files of size 0. A symlink with the same name as the deleted file can then be created upon which chown will be called, changing the file owner to root. Fixed in versions 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.23, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14, 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.8 and 2.20.11-0ubuntu22.

1.9 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.4 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope

4.7 /10

CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 1 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1862933 Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4315-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4315-2/ Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apport_project:apport:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2020-04-22 10:15

Updated : 2022-10-07 03:14

NVD link : CVE-2020-8833

Mitre link : CVE-2020-8833

Products Affected

Apport

Apport Project

CWE
CWE-367