CVE-2020-15702

Summary

TOCTOU Race Condition vulnerability in apport allows a local attacker to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code. An attacker may exit the crashed process and exploit PID recycling to spawn a root process with the same PID as the crashed process, which can then be used to escalate privileges. Fixed in 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24, 2.20.9 versions prior to 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.16 and 2.20.11 versions prior to 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.6. Was ZDI-CAN-11234.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Canonicalapport2.20.1 < 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24affected
Canonicalapport2.20.9 < 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.16affected
Canonicalapport2.20.11 < 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.6affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-367: CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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