Field Assessment
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Exhibit — Public Exploit Signal
A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.
Detected Signals
exploit
GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2016-9950
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
6.55%
Original Filing — NVD Description
An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4. There is a path traversal issue in the Apport crash file "Package" and "SourcePackage" fields. These fields are used to build a path to the package specific hook files in the /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/ directory. An attacker can exploit this path traversal to execute arbitrary Python files from the local system.