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CVE-2019-8998
An information disclosure vulnerability leading to a potential local escalation of privilege in the procfs service (the /proc filesystem)…
High7.8EPSS 0.22%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- blackberry
Description
An information disclosure vulnerability leading to a potential local escalation of privilege in the procfs service (the /proc filesystem) of BlackBerry QNX Software Development Platform version(s) 6.5.0 SP1 and earlier could allow an attacker to potentially gain unauthorized access to a chosen process address space.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| blackberryCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.22% · top 87% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- Information disclosure leading to a potential local escalation of privilege
- CWE-413 Improper Resource Locking (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-413 and its CVEs
Affected products
BlackBerry · QNX Software Development Platform (QNX SDP)
- affected 6.5.0 SP1 and earlier
References (1)
- http://support.blackberry.com/kb/articleDetail?articleNumber=000057178 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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