PT-2022-13742 · Canonical+1 · Apport+2

Gerrit Venema · Published 2022-05-17 · Updated 2025-08-22 · CVE-2022-1242

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apport (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows Apport to be tricked into connecting to arbitrary sockets as the root user.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-1242

USN-5427-1

USN-6894-1

Affected Products

Apport

Linuxmint

Ubuntu

References · 19

• 🔥 https://github.com/liumuqing/CVE-2021-3899_PoC · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-28657 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1242 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-1242 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5427-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3899 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1242 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-5427-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-28655 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-1242 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-28652 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-28658 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-6894-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-28656 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6894-1 · Vendor Advisory