CVE-2026-54228 (GCVE-0-2026-54228)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-13 02:34 – Updated: 2026-06-13 02:34
VLAI
Title
Abrt: toctou race condition in abrt-dbus setelement allows arbitrary file writes to dump directories
Summary
A time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition was found in the abrt-dbus D-Bus service's SetElement method. Between dump directory creation and post-create event execution, any local user can call SetElement to write arbitrary text files into the root-owned dump directory, bypassing package validation and allowing crashes of unpackaged binaries to survive post-create processing.
CWE
  • CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-54228 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488531 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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Date Public
2026-05-04 00:00
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Red Team (Deutsche Telekom Security GmbH) for reporting this issue.
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