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CVE-2019-8998

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CVE-2019-8998

Published: Jul 12, 2019

Modified: Aug 22, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.8

HIGH

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.

VendorProductVersions

BlackBerry

QNX Software Development Platform (QNX SDP)

affected
6.5.0 SP1 and earlier

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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