CVE-2015-1318: Apport Project Apport

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The crash reporting feature in Apport 2.13 through 2.17.x before 2.17.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted usr/share/apport/apport file in a namespace (container).

Affected products

• Apport Project Apport: version 2.13 only; version 2.13.1 only; version 2.13.2 only; version 2.13.3 only; version 2.14 only; version 2.14.1 only; …

Published 2015-04-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.