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CVE-2015-1341: Apport privilege escalation through Python module imports

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• 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: none known
• Published: 2019-04-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Any Python module in sys.path can be imported if the command line of the process triggering the coredump is Python and the first argument is -m in Apport before 2.19.2 function _python_module_path.

Affected products

• Canonical apport: before 2.19.2 — fixed in 2.19.2
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.04, 15.10

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Canonical apport 2.19.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://launchpad.net/apport/trunk/2.19.2
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/2782-1/
• https://launchpad.net/apport/trunk/2.19.2
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/2782-1/

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