CVE-2019-11481: low-severity vulnerability in Canonical apport
Apport reads arbitrary files if ~/.config/apport/settings is a symlink
Published · Updated
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 3.8epss 0.5%
exploitation probability
0.5%top 63% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
Affected products
Canonical · apportRelated CVEs — Canonical apport
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