CVE-2019-11483

moderate-risk

Published 2020-02-08

Sander Bos discovered Apport mishandled crash dumps originating from containers. This could be used by a local attacker to generate a crash report for a privileged process that is readable by an unprivileged user.

Do I need to act?

0.07% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 7.0/10 High

LOCAL / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (6)

Apport

Ubuntu Linux

Affected Vendors

Canonical Apport Project

References (5)

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-1

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-2

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/9

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-1

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-2

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moderate-risk

Severity 18/34 · Moderate

Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal

Exposure 13/34 · Low