Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2019-11481

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.

  • Published: Feb 8, 2020
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2019-11481
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 3.8
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.1
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
canonical / ubuntu_linux 16.04 16.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 18.04 18.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 19.04 19.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 14.04 14.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 19.10 19.10.x