CVE-2019-11481 — Apport reads arbitrary files if ~/.config/apport/settings is a symlink
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 appor…
Published: 2020-02-08 · CVSS: 3.8 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7