CVE-2019-11483

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
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: 2020-02-08 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected products

Apport: all versions
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-1
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-2
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/9
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-1
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-2

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