CVE-2019-11485: Apport Project Apport

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Sander Bos discovered Apport's lock file was in a world-writable directory which allowed all users to prevent crash handling.

Affected products

• Apport Project Apport: affected versions not specified
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 19.04 only; version 19.10 only

Published 2020-02-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.