CVE-2019-11482

Publication date 29 October 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.7 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

Sander Bos discovered a time of check to time of use (TOCTTOU) vulnerability in apport that allowed a user to cause core files to be written in arbitrary directories.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
apport 19.10 eoan
Fixed 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1
19.04 disco
Fixed 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.2
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm2

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 4.7 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-4171-1
    • Apport vulnerabilities
    • 30 October 2019
    • USN-4171-2
    • Apport vulnerabilities
    • 4 November 2019

Other references