CVE-2026-77113

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.

Score

CVSS 4.0 6.7 Medium

Status

Awaiting Analysis - security@ubuntu.com

Published

2026-08-20

Last modified

2026-10-18

Weaknesses

CWE-23

Affected products

• Apport (Canonical)

References

• https://launchpad.net/bugs/2161697
• https://github.com/canonical/apport/pull/646