CVE-2020-8833

lowpriority · track · 19EPSS 0.003 · 28 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.34% (28th) EPSS

CVSS 1.9 · low

Is it mine?

8 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Time-of-check Time-of-use Race Condition vulnerability on crash report ownership change in Apport allows for a possible privilege escalation opportunity. If fs.protected_symlinks is disabled, this can be exploited between the os.open and os.chown calls when the Apport cron script clears out crash files of size 0. A symlink with the same name as the deleted file can then be created upon which chown will be called, changing the file owner to root. Fixed in versions 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.23, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14, 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.8 and 2.20.11-0ubuntu22.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.6

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 1.9–5.6

v2.01.9lowAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.4 · impact 2.9

v3.14.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1 · impact 3.6

v3.15.6mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.15.6mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · security@ubuntu.comexploitability 1.1 · impact 4

v3.14.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-367USprimary

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Canonical Apport2.20.1 → 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.23enisa_euvdEU
Canonical Apport2.20.11 → 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.8enisa_euvdEU
Canonical Apport2.20.9 → 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14enisa_euvdEU
apport project apportall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:apport_project:apport:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 14.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 16.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 18.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 19.10nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-04-22modified 2026-06-17

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