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CVE-2009-1295

• Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-04-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-16

Description

Apport before 0.108.4 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, before 0.119.2 on Ubuntu 8.10, and before 1.0-0ubuntu5.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 does not properly remove files from the application's crash-report directory, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Apport: through 0.1.0.8.1
• Ubuntu: 8.0.4_lts, 8.1.0, 9.0.4

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34947
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34952
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35065
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34776
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-768-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357024
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1295
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34947
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34952
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35065

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