CVE-2026-84410

Description

In apport before 2.37.0, an improper privilege management vulnerability allows an unprivileged local attacker to gain root privileges on systems where automatic crash reporting is enabled. The automatic crash report processing pipeline runs as root and executes ldd on the attacker-controlled ExecutablePath field of a crash file placed in the world-writable /var/crash directory, causing the dynamic loader to load and execute an attacker-supplied audit module specified by the ELF's DT_AUDIT tag. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges and fully compromise the affected system.

References

https://github.com/canonical/apport/pull/656

https://github.com/canonical/apport/commit/bc7cc6a70590d6596e1f96ad74a021f2c598d73d

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-120402

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/2164767

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

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