CVE-2016-9949

An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4

published December 17, 2016

CVSS

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EPSS

18%

Percentile

97.1

In the wild

Unconfirmed

What it is

An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4. In apport/ui.py, Apport reads the CrashDB field and it then evaluates the field as Python code if it begins with a "{". This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Python code.

The record

Technical detail

CVSS: Not scored
CVSS v4.0: Not supplied
EPSS: 0.17726 · 97.1th percentile
Published: 2016-12-17T03:34Z

EPSS history

Timeline

17 DEC 03:34Z
An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4
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