CVE-2015-1318
The crash reporting feature in Apport 2.13 through 2.17.x before 2.17.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 4.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The crash reporting feature in Apport 2.13 through 2.17.x before 2.17.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted usr/share/apport/apport file in a namespace (container).
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 3 Exploit-DB entries for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits6
Metasploit modules1 module
- Apport / ABRT chroot Privilege Escalation (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/local/apport_abrt_chroot_priv_escRank excellentdisclosed 31 Mar 2015
Exploit-DB3 entries
- Apport/ABRT - 'chroot' Local Privilege Escalation (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 43971local, linuxpublished 5 Feb 2018Verified
- Apport 2.14.1 (Ubuntu 14.04.2) - Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36782local, linuxpublished 17 Apr 2015Not verified
- Apport/Abrt (Ubuntu / Fedora) - Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36746local, linuxpublished 14 Apr 2015Verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 36782 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 43971 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By canonical
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 9.0% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- https://launchpad.net/apport/trunk/2.17.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/apport/%2Bbug/1438758 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 120803 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 36782 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- USN-2569-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 43971 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/9 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-1459 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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