{"id":"CVE-2017-14180","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-14180","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:26:48.488Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2018-02-02T14:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:05:44.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@ubuntu.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-400"],"affected":["apport project/apport","canonical/ubuntu linux"],"epss":{"score":0.0044,"percentile":0.38029,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.44%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@ubuntu.com"},{"url":"https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@ubuntu.com"},{"url":"https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14180","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@ubuntu.com"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@ubuntu.com"},{"url":"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/9","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3171","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://launchpad.net/bugs/1726372","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2017-14180","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3480-1","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14180","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}