🛡️ CVE-2022-28657 — apport

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 NVD

7.8

CVSS Score

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Description

Apport does not disable python crash handler before entering chroot

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 high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-28657 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2022-28657 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-2022-28657 on other distributions

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

Ubuntu

Details

Severity HIGH

CVSS Score 7.8

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE CWE-400

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	—	—

References

Third Party Advisory https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5427-1

Third Party Advisory https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-28657

Third Party Advisory https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5427-1

Third Party Advisory https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-28657

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