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CVE-2019-8998

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-07-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-413

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.

Affected products

• BlackBerry QNX Software Development Platform (SDP): through 6.5.0

References

• http://support.blackberry.com/kb/articleDetail?articleNumber=000057178
• http://support.blackberry.com/kb/articleDetail?articleNumber=000057178

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