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CVE-2022-1242

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-06-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Apport can be tricked into connecting to arbitrary sockets as the root user

Affected products

• Canonical apport: before 2.21.0 — fixed in 2.21.0
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04, 20.04, 21.10, 22.04

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Canonical apport 2.21.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5427-1
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1242
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5427-1
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1242

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