CVE-2025-5467: canonical apport Incorrect Ownership Assignment
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-5467 is a low (CVSS 3.3) Incorrect Ownership Assignment vulnerability in canonical apport. EPSS estimates a 0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6.5% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.
Timeline
- 10-12-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 10-12-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
It was discovered that process_crash() in data/apport in Canonical's Apport crash reporting tool may create crash files with incorrect group ownership, possibly exposing crash information beyond expected or intended groups.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions- NVDNIST1.9LowCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS trend
Probability
0.18%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
7%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.18% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
2 foundExploit Reference (stratascale.com)
Maturity: unknown
Exploit Reference (bugs.launchpad.net)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Canonical1 product
- apport≥ 2.32.0, < 2.32.0-0ubuntu5.1 | ≥ 2.20.9, < 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.29+esm1 | ≥ 2.28.1, < 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.6 | ≥ 2.33.0, < 2.33.0-0ubuntu1 | ≥ 2.20.1, < 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30+esm5 | ≥ 2.20.1-0ubuntu1, < 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30 | ≥ 2.20.9-0ubuntu7, < 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.29 | ≥ 2.20.11-0ubuntu27, < 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.28 | ≥ 2.20.11-0ubuntu82, < 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.7 | ≥ 2.28.1-0ubuntu1, < 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.6 | ≥ 2.32.0-0ubuntu1, < 2.32.0-0ubuntu5.1
1 vendor · 1 product