# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2018-6552"
idYear: 2018
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2018-05-31T22:00:00.000Z"
updatedAt: "2024-09-17T03:07:21.752Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:04.670Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2018-6552"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2018-6552.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6552"
title: "Apport treats the container PID as the global PID when /proc/\u003cglobal_pid\u003e/  is missing"
summary: "Apport does not properly handle crashes originating from a PID namespace allowing local users to create certain files as root which an attacker could leverage to perform a denial of service via resource exhaustion, possibly gain root privileges, or escape from containers. The is_same_ns() function returns True when /proc/\u003cglobal pid\u003e/ does not exist in order to indicate that the crash should be handled in the global namespace rather than inside of a container. However, the portion of the data/apport code that decides whether or not to forward a crash to a container does not always replace sys.argv[1] with the value stored in the host_pid variable when /proc/\u003cglobal pid\u003e/ does not exist which results in the container pid being used in the global namespace. This flaw affects versions 2.20.8-0ubuntu4 through 2.20.9-0ubuntu7, 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7, 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.8, 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15 through 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.17, and 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.28."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2.20.8-0ubuntu4","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"unspecified"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.20.9-0ubuntu7.1"}],"vendor":"n/a","product":"Apport","platforms":["Ubuntu 18.04"]},{"versions":[{"version":"2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"unspecified"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18"}],"vendor":"n/a","product":"Apport","platforms":["Ubuntu 16.04"]},{"versions":[{"version":"2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"unspecified"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.20.7-0ubuntu3.9"}],"vendor":"n/a","product":"Apport","platforms":["Ubuntu 17.10"]},{"versions":[{"version":"2.14.1-0ubuntu3.28","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"n/a","product":"Apport","platforms":["Ubuntu 14.04"]}]

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