TOCTOU Race Condition vulnerability in apport allows a local attacker to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code. An attacker may exit the crashed process and exploit PID recycling to spawn a root process with the same PID as the crashed process, which can then be used to escalate privileges. Fixed in 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24, 2.20.9 versions prior to 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.16 and 2.20.11 versions prior to 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.6. Was ZDI-CAN-11234.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published: 2020-08-06T22:50:22.871Z

Updated: 2025-11-03T19:25:30.971Z

Reserved: 2020-07-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-15702

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-08-06T23:15:11.750

Modified: 2025-11-03T20:15:44.883

Link: CVE-2020-15702

cve-icon Redhat

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