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CVE-2015-1341

Apport privilege escalation through Python module imports

Description

Any Python module in sys.path can be imported if the command line of the process triggering the coredump is Python and the first argument is -m in Apport before 2.19.2 function _python_module_path.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By canonical

  2. · 4 years later

    Published

  3. · 5 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

CVSS scores of CVE-2015-1341, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
canonicalCNA (assigner)3.0High7.4CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVDNVD · Modified3.0High7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.43% · top 63% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.4.

Affected products

  • Ubuntu · Apport

    • affected unspecified – < 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.13
    • affected unspecified – < 2.19.1-0ubuntu4
    • affected unspecified – < 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.7
    • affected unspecified – < 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.18
    • affected unspecified – < 2.19.2

References

2

Sources

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