CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-11482

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Published: Feb 08, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
4.7
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
1.9 LOW
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Sander Bos discovered a time of check to time of use (TOCTTOU) vulnerability in apport that allowed a user to cause core files to be written in arbitrary directories.

Weakness

The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource’s state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 14.04 (including) 14.04 (including)
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 16.04 (including) 16.04 (including)
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 18.04 (including) 18.04 (including)
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 19.04 (including) 19.04 (including)
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 19.10 (including) 19.10 (including)
Apport Ubuntu bionic *
Apport Ubuntu devel *
Apport Ubuntu disco *
Apport Ubuntu eoan *
Apport Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Apport Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Apport Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Apport Ubuntu trusty *
Apport Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Apport Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References