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CVE-2025-5054

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Published: May 30, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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4.7
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Exploitability: 1.0 / Impact: 3.6
Source: security@ubuntu.com (Secondary)

Description

Race condition in Canonical apport up to and including 2.32.0 allows a local attacker to leak sensitive information via PID-reuse by leveraging namespaces. When handling a crash, the function `_check_global_pid_and_forward`, which detects if the crashing process resided in a container, was being called before `consistency_checks`, which attempts to detect if the crashing process had been replaced. Because of this, if a process crashed and was quickly replaced with a containerized one, apport could be made to forward the core dump to the container, potentially leaking sensitive information. `consistency_checks` is now being called before `_check_global_pid_and_forward`. Additionally, given that the PID-reuse race condition cannot be reliably detected from userspace alone, crashes are only forwarded to containers if the kernel provided a pidfd, or if the crashing process was unprivileged (i.e., if dump mode == 1).

Affected (8)

2 products
Apport
Ubuntu Linux
Configuration A
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Up to 2.32.0
Configuration B
7 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Canonical
Version 16.04
Version 18.04
Version 20.04
Version 22.04
Version 24.04
Version 24.10
Version 25.04

References (4)

Source: security@ubuntu.com
Third Party Advisory
Source: security@ubuntu.com
Third Party Advisory
Source: security@ubuntu.com
ExploitMitigationThird Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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