#VU22533 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in apport (Ubuntu package) - CVE-2019-15790
Published: November 5, 2019 / Updated: July 20, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU22533
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15790
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
apport (Ubuntu package)
apport (Ubuntu package)
Software vendor:
Canonical Ltd.
Canonical Ltd.
Description
The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to Apport reads various process-specific files with elevated privileges during crash dump generation. A local user can force the application to generate a crash report for a privileged process and gain access to sensitive information.
Remediation
Update the affected packages.
- Ubuntu 19.10
- apport - 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2
- python-apport - 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2
- python3-apport - 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2
- Ubuntu 19.04
- apport - 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.3
- python-apport - 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.3
- python3-apport - 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.3
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- apport - 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
- python-apport - 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
- python3-apport - 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- apport - 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.21
- python-apport - 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.21
- python3-apport - 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.21