CVSS 4.0
7.3 highCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NCVE-2026-84410
High (7.3) in canonical apport. EPSS 0.1% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
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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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.1% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; 1st percentile. Scored 2026-11-10. A forecast for this CVE across the internet, not for your own systems.
- CWE
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
- OWASP Top 10
- A06:2025 Insecure Design
- Published
- Assigned by
- canonical (CNA)
- NVD analysis
- Not in the NVD yet
- Record from
- the CVE List, synced
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Affected
Versions
From the CNA's record in the CVE List.
| Product | Affected |
|---|---|
| Canonical apport | from 2.9.0 before 2.37.0 |
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- CAPEC-58 Restful Privilege Elevation Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-122 Privilege Abuse Likelihood: High · Severity: Medium
- CAPEC-233 Privilege Escalation
The attack patterns MITRE's CAPEC relates to this record's weaknesses, as MITRE names them. Credits.