CVE-2016-9950

Description

An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4. There is a path traversal issue in the Apport crash file Package and SourcePackage fields. These fields are used to build a path to the package specific hook files in the /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/ directory. An attacker can exploit this path traversal to execute arbitrary Python files from the local system.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.8

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.73

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-1668-1) apport_2.0.1-0ubuntu17.15_all.deb	Linux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-3157-1) apport_2.0.1-0ubuntu17.15_all.deb	Linux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-3157-1) apport-gtk_2.0.1-0ubuntu17.15_all.deb	Linux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-3157-1) apport-kde_2.0.1-0ubuntu17.15_all.deb	Linux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-3157-1) python-apport_2.0.1-0ubuntu17.15_all.deb	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234