CVE-2019-11482: medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical apport
Race condition between reading current working directory and writing a core dump
Published · Updated
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 4.2epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 87% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Sander Bos discovered a time of check to time of use (TOCTTOU) vulnerability in apport that allowed a user to cause core files to be written in arbitrary directories.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
Affected products
Canonical · apportRelated CVEs — Canonical apport
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2021-25684HIGHapport can be stalled by reading a FIFOEPSS 0.6%CVE-2020-15702HIGHTOCTOU in apportEPSS 0.5%CVE-2021-3710MEDIUMApport info disclosure via path traversal bug in read_fileEPSS 0.5%CVE-2021-3709MEDIUMApport file permission bypass through emacs byte compilation errorsEPSS 0.5%CVE-2021-25682HIGHapport improperly parses /proc/pid/statusEPSS 0.5%CVE-2019-11481LOWApport reads arbitrary files if ~/.config/apport/settings is a symlinkEPSS 0.5%