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CVE-2019-11481

Estado: ModificadaAlta (7.8)—

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.

CVSS

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

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Tecnologías afectadas (2)

Apport Project — ApportCanonical — Ubuntu Linux

CWE

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