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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) 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.

    Published:Jul 12, 2019
    Last Modified:Aug 22, 2025
    EPS:Jul 12, 2019
    EPSS Score:0.00047
    CVSS Score:7.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Blackberry
    Product
    Qnx Software Development Platform

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-413 Improper Resource Locking

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High