USN-6018-1
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USN-6018-1
Published: 13 Apr 2023Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026
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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.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6018-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-1326, https://launchpad.net/bugs/2016023
Affected packages
Package
Name: apport
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=bionic
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -2.20.9-0ubuntu7.29
Affected versions
2.20.7-0ubuntu3
2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
2.20.7-0ubuntu4
2.20.8-0ubuntu1
2.20.8-0ubuntu2
2.20.8-0ubuntu3
2.20.8-0ubuntu4
2.20.8-0ubuntu5
2.20.8-0ubuntu6
2.20.8-0ubuntu7
2.20.8-0ubuntu8
2.20.8-0ubuntu9
2.20.8-0ubuntu10
2.20.9-0ubuntu1
2.20.9-0ubuntu2
2.20.9-0ubuntu4
2.20.9-0ubuntu5
2.20.9-0ubuntu6
2.20.9-0ubuntu7
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.1
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.3
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.11
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.12
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.13
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.15
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.16
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.17
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.18
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.19
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.20
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.21
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.23
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.24
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.26
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.27
2.20.9-0ubuntu7.28
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
