Vulnerability · Published Jun 11, 2021 · Assigned by canonical

CVE-2021-25683apport improperly parses /proc/pid/stat

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity improper input validation in apport from Canonical. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 38% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 62.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

It was discovered that the get_starttime() function in data/apport did not properly parse the /proc/pid/stat file from the kernel.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Canonical	apport	2.20.1 – before 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.302.20.9 – before 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.232.20.11-0ubuntu27 – before 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.162.20.11-0ubuntu50 – before 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.5

Weakness: CWE-20 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1912326 x_refsource_MISC