CVE-2025-5054

Race Condition in Canonical Apport

State
Published
Severity
4.7 Medium
Published
May 30, 2025
Updated
Nov 3, 2025
Reserved
May 21, 2025

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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).

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.7 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Ncanonical

Weaknesses

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ApportCanonical
  • 2.20.1 to before 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30+esm5Affected
  • 2.20.9 to before 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.29+esm1Affected
  • 2.20.11 to before 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.28Affected
  • 2.20.11 to before 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.7Affected
  • 2.28.1 to before 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.6Affected
  • 2.30.0 to before 2.30.0-0ubuntu4.3Affected
  • 2.32.0 to before 2.32.0-0ubuntu5.1Affected
  • 2.32.0 to before 2.33.0-0ubuntu1Affected
  • 2.20 through 2.32.0Affected

References

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