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CVE-2022-28652

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 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: 2024-06-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-776

Description

~/.config/apport/settings parsing is vulnerable to "billion laughs" attack

Affected products

• 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: 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-2022-28652
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5427-1
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-28652

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