{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-11481 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2019-11481 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 8 Feb 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2019-11481 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2019-11481 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 8 Feb 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-11481 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Canonical Ubuntu Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-11481/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-11481/index.md)","id":"CVE-2019-11481","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-11481/index.md","name":"CVE-2019-11481","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-7hrm-rprg-v656","UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11481"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Ubuntu apport","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can exploit a symlink vulnerability in Apport to read arbitrary files on the system with root privileges.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"canonical","cpe":[{"product":"apport","vendor":"apport_project"},{"product":"ubuntu_linux","vendor":"canonical"}],"cvss":{"score":3.8,"severity":"low","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-59","name":"Improper Link Resolution Before File Access"}],"description":"Kevin Backhouse discovered that apport would read a user-supplied configuration file with elevated privileges. By replacing the file with a symbolic link, a user could get apport to read any file on the system as root, with unknown consequences.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Apport reads arbitrary files if ~/.config/apport/settings is a symlink","id":"CVE-2019-11481","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"canonical:ubuntu_linux","products":["canonical:ubuntu_linux"],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2019"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Race condition between reading current working directory and writing a core dump","id":"CVE-2019-11482"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Ubuntu kernel snap build process could use unauthenticated sources","id":"CVE-2019-11480"},"products":["apport"],"published":"2020-02-08","related":[{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Denial of service in Apport","id":"CVE-2022-28657","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-06-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Apport treats the container PID as the global PID when /proc/\u003cglobal_pid\u003e/ is missing","id":"CVE-2018-6552","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-05-31"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in Apport","id":"CVE-2017-14177","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-02-02"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in Apport","id":"CVE-2017-14179","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-02-02"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in Apport","id":"CVE-2017-14180","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-02-02"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-10708","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-07-18"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-9949","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-12-17"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-16","vendors":["Canonical"]},"summary":"A local attacker can exploit a symlink vulnerability in Apport to read arbitrary files on the system with root privileges.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-11481/"}