🛡️ CVE-2022-28652 — apport

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-776 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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Description

~/.config/apport/settings parsing is vulnerable to "billion laughs" attack

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-28652 is classified as CWE-776: XML Entity Expansion. Nested entity definitions expand enormously when parsed, consuming memory and CPU.

Affected software

CVE-2022-28652 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • apport (fixed in 2.21.0)
  • ubuntu-linux

Timeline and source

Published on 4 June 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

ubuntu.com
www.cve.org
ubuntu.com
www.cve.org

CVE-2022-28652 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-776
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-06-04
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
apport — 2.21.0
ubuntu-linux — —

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