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CVE-2017-14180

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.44%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-02-02 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2017-14180
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.44%

Original NVD Description

Apport 2.13 through 2.20.7 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 or possibly gain root privileges, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-14179.