Riskcovery

CVE-2019-11481

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

State
Published
Severity
3.8 Low
Published
Feb 8, 2020
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Apr 23, 2019

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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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.13.8 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:Ncanonical

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
apportCanonical
  • 2.14.1 to before 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm2Affected
  • 2.20.1 to before 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20Affected
  • 2.20.9 to before 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8Affected
  • 2.20.11 to before 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1Affected

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