CVE-2025-5054

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).
References
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:canonical:apport:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

22 Aug 2025, 19:36

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPE cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:apport:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
First Time Canonical
Canonical ubuntu Linux
Canonical apport
References () https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-5054 - () https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-5054 - Third Party Advisory
References () https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7545-1 - () https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7545-1 - Third Party Advisory
References () https://www.qualys.com/2025/05/29/apport-coredump/apport-coredump.txt - () https://www.qualys.com/2025/05/29/apport-coredump/apport-coredump.txt - Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory

02 Jun 2025, 17:32

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-05-30 18:15

Updated : 2025-08-22 19:36


NVD link : CVE-2025-5054

Mitre link : CVE-2025-5054

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-5054


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Products Affected

canonical

  • ubuntu_linux
  • apport
CWE
CWE-362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')