🛡️ CVE-2025-5467 — apport

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 low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Integrity impact: None.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-5467 is classified as CWE-708: Incorrect Ownership Assignment. The product assigns an owner to a resource, but the owner is outside of the intended control sphere.

Affected software

CVE-2025-5467 is recorded against 1 package.

• apport (from 2.32.0-0ubuntu1 up to 2.32.0-0ubuntu5.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 December 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

bugs.launchpad.net
www.stratascale.com

Other advisories for this package

apport has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• USN-7545-4 (published 4 Aug 2025)
• USN-7545-3 (published 14 Jul 2025)
• USN-7545-2 (published 9 Jun 2025)
• CVE-2025-5054 (4.7 Medium, published 30 May 2025)
• USN-7545-1 (published 29 May 2025)
• UBUNTU-CVE-2025-5054 (published 29 May 2025)
• CVE-2022-28653 (7.5 High, published 31 Jan 2025)
• USN-6894-1 (published 11 Jul 2024)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-708: Incorrect Ownership Assignment) in other software:

• CVE-2026-40196 (8.1 High, published 17 Apr 2026)
• CVE-2026-32691 (5.3 Medium, published 23 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-14262 (4.3 Medium, published 8 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-5069 (5.0 Medium, published 1 Oct 2025)
• CVE-2024-52561 (7.8 High, published 3 Jun 2025)
• GHSA-wr2m-38xh-rpc9 (published 8 Apr 2025)
• CVE-2024-45426 (4.9 Medium, published 25 Feb 2025)
• CVE-2024-45417 (6.0 Medium, published 25 Feb 2025)

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