CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9950
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
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.
Affected configurations
• apport project apport (<= 2.20.3)
• canonical ubuntu linux (<= 12.10)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95011 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3157-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1648806 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://donncha.is/2016/12/compromising-ubuntu-desktop/ Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/DonnchaC/ubuntu-apport-exploitation Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40937/ www.exploit-db.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95011 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3157-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1648806 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://donncha.is/2016/12/compromising-ubuntu-desktop/ Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/DonnchaC/ubuntu-apport-exploitation Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40937/ www.exploit-db.com