{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2016-9950", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://github.com/DonnchaC/ubuntu-apport-exploitation", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://github.com/DonnchaC/ubuntu-apport-exploitation" }, { "name": "https://donncha.is/2016/12/compromising-ubuntu-desktop/", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://donncha.is/2016/12/compromising-ubuntu-desktop/" }, { "name": "https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1648806", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1648806" }, { "name": "95011", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95011" }, { "name": "USN-3157-1", "refsource": "UBUNTU", "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3157-1" }, { "name": "40937", "refsource": "EXPLOIT-DB", "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40937/" } ] } }