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Medium 6.7Published Aug 20, 2026
CVE-2026-77113Path Traversal Vulnerability in apport-unpack
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Path traversal in apport-unpack in Canonical Apport before 2.36.0, 2.34.2, and 2.28.4 on Linux allows an attacker to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the executing user via an attacker controlled key names in crash report files.
- CVSS
- 6.7 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-23
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- canonical
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting Analysis
- Record last updated
- Aug 21, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Canonical Apport canonical:apport (from the name) | before 2.36.0; before 2.34.2; before 2.28.4 | CNA record |
References
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/2161697issue-tracking, vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/canonical/apport/pull/646patch
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