CVE-2019-11481

Apport reads arbitrary files if ~/.config/apport/settings is a symlink

Low3.8EPSS 0.45%

Published: 8 Feb 2020
Updated: 16 Sept 2024
Reserved: 23 Apr 2019
Assigned by: canonical

Description

Kevin Backhouse discovered that apport would read a user-supplied configuration file with elevated privileges. By replacing the file with a symbolic link, a user could get apport to read any file on the system as root, with unknown consequences.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2019-11481, by who scored it
Scored by	CVSS	Score	Vector
canonicalCNA (assigner)	3.1	Low3.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVDNVD · Modified	3.1	High7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days): 0.45% · top 61% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.8.

Weakness

Read user data with administrator privileges
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Affected products

Canonical · apport
- affected 2.14.1 – < 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm2
- affected 2.20.1 – < 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20
- affected 2.20.9 – < 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8
- affected 2.20.11 – < 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1

References (3)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-1 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-2 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172858/Ubuntu-Apport-Whoopsie-DoS-Integer-Overflow.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

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Record last updated 16 Sept 2024, 23:25 UTC.