CVE-2020-8833 (GCVE-0-2020-8833)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-04-22 21:15
Modified
2024-09-16 20:53
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EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Summary
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.
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