CVE-2026-77113Path Traversal Vulnerability in apport-unpack

Description

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.

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

References and patches

• https://launchpad.net/bugs/2161697 issue-trackingvendor-advisory
• https://github.com/canonical/apport/pull/646 patch