CVE-2016-9950: Apport Project Apport

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 6.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4. There is a path traversal issue in the Apport crash file "Package" and "SourcePackage" fields. These fields are used to build a path to the package specific hook files in the /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/ directory. An attacker can exploit this path traversal to execute arbitrary Python files from the local system.

Affected products

• Apport Project Apport: up to and including 2.20.3
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: up to and including 12.10

Published 2016-12-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.