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CVE-2019-11481

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

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.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By canonical

  2. · 10 months 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-2019-11481, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
canonicalCNA (assigner)3.1Low3.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVDNVD · Modified3.1High7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.45% · top 60% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.8.

Affected products

  • Canonical · apport

    • affected 2.14.1 – < 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm2
    • affected 2.20.1 – < 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20
    • affected 2.20.9 – < 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8
    • affected 2.20.11 – < 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1

References

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