VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-1318

high
Published 2015-04-17 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.2

Description

The crash reporting feature in Apport 2.13 through 2.17.x before 2.17.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted usr/share/apport/apport file in a namespace (container).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

exploit_linux/local/apport_abrt_chroot_priv_esc rank 600
Apport / ABRT chroot Privilege Escalation
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
apport_projectapport2.13
apport_projectapport2.13.1
apport_projectapport2.13.2
apport_projectapport2.13.3
apport_projectapport2.14
apport_projectapport2.14.1
apport_projectapport2.14.2
apport_projectapport2.14.3
apport_projectapport2.14.4
apport_projectapport2.14.5
apport_projectapport2.14.6
apport_projectapport2.14.7
apport_projectapport2.15
apport_projectapport2.15.1
apport_projectapport2.16
apport_projectapport2.16.1
apport_projectapport2.16.2
apport_projectapport2.17

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.