CVE-2021-32555

lowpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.003 · 21 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.29% (21st) EPSS

CVSS 2.1 · low

Is it mine?

11 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

It was discovered that read_file() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the xorg-hwe-18.04 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–high · 2.1–7.3

v2.02.1lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.9

v3.15.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 3.6

v3.17.3highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:Lsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17.3highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:Lsecondary · security@ubuntu.comexploitability 2 · impact 4.7

v3.15.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-59USprimaryCWE-61US

affected products (11)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Canonical Apport2.14.1-0ubuntu3 → 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm7enisa_euvdEU
Canonical Apport2.20.1 → 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30+esm1enisa_euvdEU
Canonical Apport2.20.11-0ubuntu27 → 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.18enisa_euvdEU
Canonical Apport2.20.11-0ubuntu50 → 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.7enisa_euvdEU
Canonical Apport2.20.11-0ubuntu65 → 2.20.11-0ubuntu65.1enisa_euvdEU
Canonical Apport2.20.9 → 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.24enisa_euvdEU
canonical ubuntu linux= 18.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 20.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 20.10nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 21.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 21.10nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-06-12modified 2026-06-17

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references (6)

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