CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-77113

MediumCVSS 6.7
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.24%

15th percentile - higher than 15% of all known CVEs

Summary

Path traversal in apport-unpack in Canonical Apport before 2.36.0, 2.34.2, and 2.28.4 on Linux allows an attacker to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the executing user via an attacker controlled key names in crash report files.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can overwrite critical system or user files, potentially leading to privilege escalation or system damage.

Recommendation

Update Apport to a patched version and restrict access to crash report files.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Path traversal in apport-unpack in Canonical Apport before 2.36.0, 2.34.2, and 2.28.4 on Linux allows an attacker to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the executing user via an attacker controlled key names in crash report files.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS