CVE-2026-77113 (GCVE-0-2026-77113)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-20 22:32
Modified
2026-08-21 20:08
CWE
  • CWE-23 - Relative path traversal
Summary
Path traversal in apport-unpack in Canonical Apport before 2.36.0, 2.34.2, and 2.28.4 on Linux allows an attacker to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the executing user via an attacker controlled key names in crash report files.
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