EIP-2026-102778

PRE-CVE

Apport 2.20 - Local Privilege Escalation

Title source: legacy
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for EIP-2026-102778. PoCs published by Gr33nh4t.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a race condition in Apport's crash handling to achieve local privilege escalation by manipulating PID reuse and injecting a malicious logrotate configuration. The PoC includes compiled binaries and scripts to trigger the vulnerability and spawn a reverse shell.

Description

Apport 2.20 - Local Privilege Escalation

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by Gr33nh4t · textlocallinux
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49572

This exploit leverages a race condition in Apport's crash handling to achieve local privilege escalation by manipulating PID reuse and injecting a malicious logrotate configuration. The PoC includes compiled binaries and scripts to trigger the vulnerability and spawn a reverse shell.

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Lpe
Complexity
Complex
Reliability
Racy
Target: Apport (Ubuntu 16.04-20.10, versions before specific patches)
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Local access to the target system · Compilation tools (gcc, nasm) · Apport service running
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 18, 2026 Full analysis →

Details

Status pre_cve
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026