Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-9950

Title: Apport Project Apport Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2016-9950

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Dec 17, 2016

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

6.55%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-9950: 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.

Impacted Vendors

apport 1

apport_project 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95011 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3157-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1648806 https://donncha.is/2016/12/compromising-ubuntu-desktop/ https://github.com/DonnchaC/ubuntu-apport-exploitation https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40937/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95011 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3157-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1648806 https://donncha.is/2016/12/compromising-ubuntu-desktop/ https://github.com/DonnchaC/ubuntu-apport-exploitation https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40937/

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2016-9950 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40937

View Code

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 17, 2016 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction REQUIRED

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.