CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-11481

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-02-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-02-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
3.8 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.1 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-59

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.

Affected configurations

• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 18.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 19.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 19.10 • apport project apport

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References