usn-6018-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2023-04-13 22:18
Modified
2026-02-10 04:43
Summary
apport vulnerability
Details

Chen Lu, Lei Wang, and YiQi Sun discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in apport-cli when viewing crash reports and unprivileged users are allowed to run sudo less. A local attacker on a specially configured system could use this to escalate their privilege.

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  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Chen Lu, Lei Wang, and YiQi Sun discovered a privilege escalation\nvulnerability in apport-cli when viewing crash reports and unprivileged\nusers are allowed to run sudo less. A local attacker on a specially\nconfigured system could use this to escalate their privilege.\n",
  "id": "USN-6018-1",
  "modified": "2026-02-10T04:43:04Z",
  "published": "2023-04-13T22:18:37Z",
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://launchpad.net/bugs/2016023"
    }
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  "summary": "apport vulnerability",
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}



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