CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-32557

7.1 HIGH Published 2021-06-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-06-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-59, CWE-61

Description

It was discovered that the process_report() function in data/whoopsie-upload-all allowed arbitrary file writes via symlinks.

Affected configurations

• canonical apport (>= 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 < 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29\+esm7) • canonical apport (>= 2.20.1 < 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30\+esm1) • canonical apport (>= 2.20.9 < 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.24) • canonical apport (>= 2.20.11-0ubuntu27 < 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.18) • canonical apport (>= 2.20.11-0ubuntu50 < 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.7) • canonical apport (>= 2.20.11-0ubuntu65 < 2.20.11-0ubuntu65.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
  • CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following weakness

References