CVE-2011-0725: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the org.debian.apt.UpdateCachePartially method in worker.py in Aptdaemon 0.40 in Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the sources_list argument, related to the D-Bus interface.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.10 only; version 11.04 only
• Sebastian Heinlein Aptdaemon: version 0.40 only

Published 2011-02-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.