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CVE-2019-7307· NVD / CVE Program· CNA canonical

Apport contains a TOCTTOU vulnerability when reading the users ~/.apport-ignore.xml

Apport before versions 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm1, 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.19, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7, 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1, 2.20.11-0ubuntu5 contained a TOCTTOU vulnerability when reading the users ~/.apport-ignore.xml file, which allows a local attacker to replace this file with a symlink to any other file on the system and so cause Apport to include the contents of this other file in the resulting crash report. The crash report could then be read by that user either by causing it to be uploaded and reported to Launchpad, or by leveraging some other vulnerability to read the resulting crash report, and so allow the user to read arbitrary files on the system.

HighCVSS 7.0 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Aug 29, 2019
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
0.3% · 23th percentile
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Action score

28

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
28 / 40 · 7.0 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.3%

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
7.0
CNA · canonical
6.5
0.5 point gap

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

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Affected systems

VendorProduct
apport projectapport
canonicalubuntu linux

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • apport project apport2.14.1
  • apport project apport2.20.1
  • apport project apport2.20.10
  • apport project apport2.20.9

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (canonical). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Ubuntu apport

    • before 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm1, before 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.19, before 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7, before 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1, before 2.20.11-0ubuntu5affected

Same product

apport project: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2016-9949An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4.
    36Monitor
  • CVE-2016-9950An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4.
    33Monitor
  • CVE-2017-10708An issue was discovered in Apport through 2.20.x.
    32Monitor
  • CVE-2022-28657Apport does not disable python crash handler before entering chroot
    31Monitor
  • CVE-2018-6552Apport treats the container PID as the global PID when /proc/<global_pid>/ is missing
    31Monitor
  • CVE-2017-14180Apport 2.13 through 2.20.7 does not properly handle crashes originating from a PID namespace allowing local users to create certain files as
    31Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

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Patch and commit links

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Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-367 · Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

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References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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