CVE-2022-1242: Canonical Apport

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apport can be tricked into connecting to arbitrary sockets as the root user

Affected products

• Canonical Apport: before 2.21.0 (fixed in 2.21.0)
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 18.04 only; version 20.04 only; version 21.10 only; version 22.04 only

Published 2024-06-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.