{"id":"CVE-2019-11481","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-11481","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:26:46.412Z","title":"Kevin Backhouse discovered that apport would read a user-supplied configuration file with elevated privileges.","description":"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.","published":"2020-02-08T05:15:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:12:59.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@ubuntu.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-59"],"affected":["canonical/ubuntu linux","apport project/apport"],"epss":{"score":0.00453,"percentile":0.39168,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.45%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172858/Ubuntu-Apport-Whoopsie-DoS-Integer-Overflow.html","source":"security@ubuntu.com"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-1","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@ubuntu.com"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-2","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@ubuntu.com"},{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172858/Ubuntu-Apport-Whoopsie-DoS-Integer-Overflow.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-1","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-2","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11481","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}