{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2025-5054","assignerOrgId":"cc1ad9ee-3454-478d-9317-d3e869d708bc","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"canonical","dateReserved":"2025-05-21T14:00:55.371Z","datePublished":"2025-05-30T17:37:01.006Z","dateUpdated":"2025-11-03T20:05:43.609Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"affected":[{"collectionURL":"https://launchpad.net/apport","defaultStatus":"unaffected","packageName":"apport","platforms":["Linux"],"product":"Apport","repo":"https://git.launchpad.net/apport","vendor":"Canonical","versions":[{"lessThan":"2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30+esm5","status":"affected","version":"2.20.1","versionType":"dpkg"},{"lessThan":"2.20.9-0ubuntu7.29+esm1","status":"affected","version":"2.20.9","versionType":"dpkg"},{"lessThan":"2.20.11-0ubuntu27.28","status":"affected","version":"2.20.11","versionType":"dpkg"},{"lessThan":"2.20.11-0ubuntu82.7","status":"affected","version":"2.20.11","versionType":"dpkg"},{"lessThan":"2.28.1-0ubuntu3.6","status":"affected","version":"2.28.1","versionType":"dpkg"},{"lessThan":"2.30.0-0ubuntu4.3","status":"affected","version":"2.30.0","versionType":"dpkg"},{"lessThan":"2.32.0-0ubuntu5.1","status":"affected","version":"2.32.0","versionType":"dpkg"},{"lessThan":"2.33.0-0ubuntu1","status":"affected","version":"2.32.0","versionType":"dpkg"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"2.32.0","status":"affected","version":"2.20","versionType":"semver"}]}],"credits":[{"lang":"en","type":"reporter","value":"Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU)"}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","supportingMedia":[{"base64":false,"type":"text/html","value":"<div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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).</div>"}],"value":"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.\n\n\n\n\nWhen 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)."}],"impacts":[{"capecId":"CAPEC-26","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"CAPEC-26 Leveraging Race Conditions"}]}],"metrics":[{"cvssV3_1":{"attackComplexity":"HIGH","attackVector":"LOCAL","availabilityImpact":"NONE","baseScore":4.7,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"NONE","privilegesRequired":"LOW","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"format":"CVSS","scenarios":[{"lang":"en","value":"GENERAL"}]}],"problemTypes":[{"descriptions":[{"cweId":"CWE-362","description":"CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}]}],"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"cc1ad9ee-3454-478d-9317-d3e869d708bc","shortName":"canonical","dateUpdated":"2025-06-09T16:23:28.514Z"},"references":[{"tags":["vendor-advisory"],"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7545-1"},{"tags":["vdb-entry"],"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-5054"},{"tags":["third-party-advisory"],"url":"https://www.qualys.com/2025/05/29/apport-coredump/apport-coredump.txt"}],"source":{"discovery":"EXTERNAL"},"title":"Race Condition in Canonical Apport"},"adp":[{"metrics":[{"other":{"type":"ssvc","content":{"timestamp":"2025-05-30T17:59:23.055492Z","id":"CVE-2025-5054","options":[{"Exploitation":"poc"},{"Automatable":"no"},{"Technical Impact":"partial"}],"role":"CISA Coordinator","version":"2.0.3"}}}],"title":"CISA ADP Vulnrichment","providerMetadata":{"orgId":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0","shortName":"CISA-ADP","dateUpdated":"2025-05-30T17:59:52.521Z"}},{"title":"CVE Program Container","references":[{"url":"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/9"}],"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","shortName":"CVE","dateUpdated":"2025-11-03T20:05:43.609Z"}}]}}