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CVE-2019-11481

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.133

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-4171-1) apport_2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-4171-1) apport_2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-4171-1) apport_2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-4171-1) apport_2.20.10-0ubuntu27.2_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-4171-1) python-apport_2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-4171-1) python-apport_2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-4171-1) python-apport_2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-4171-1) python-apport_2.20.10-0ubuntu27.2_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-4171-1) python3-apport_2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-4171-1) python3-apport_2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-4171-1) python3-apport_2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1_all.debLinux
automatically generate crash reports for debugging (USN-4171-1) python3-apport_2.20.10-0ubuntu27.2_all.debLinux

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