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CVE-2016-1585
AppArmor mount rules grant excessive permissions
Low3.9EPSS 1.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- canonical
Description
In all versions of AppArmor mount rules are accidentally widened when compiled.
Timeline
ID reserved
By canonical
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Published
- 5 years later
· 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
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| canonicalCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Low3.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 36% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.9.
Weakness
- Improper translation of access control rules to policy.
Affected products
References (2)
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/apparmor/+bug/1597017 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [mina-dev] 20210225 [jira] [Created] (FTPSERVER-500) Security vulnerability in common/lib/log4j-1.2.17.jar (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
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)
- 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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