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CVE-2019-11481

Published: Feb 8, 2020

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

3.8

LOW

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.

VendorProductVersions

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

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

None

References

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