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Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2015-12-07 18:59 - Updated: 2026-08-27 04:16
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The abrt-hook-ccpp help program in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) before 2.7.1 allows local users with certain permissions to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file with a predictable name, as demonstrated by /var/tmp/abrt/abrt-hax-coredump or /var/spool/abrt/abrt-hax-coredump.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154592/ABRT-sosreport-Privilege-Escalation.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2505.htmlVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/01/1Exploit
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78137Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266837Exploit
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3c1b60cfa62d39e5fff5a53a5bc53dae189e740ePatch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38832/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154592/ABRT-sosreport-Privilege-Escalation.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2505.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/01/1Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78137Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266837Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3c1b60cfa62d39e5fff5a53a5bc53dae189e740ePatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38832/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://blog.talosintelligence.com/uat-10147-chinese-speaking-adversary-integrates-agentic-ai-into-post-compromise-operations/Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2015-5287Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat automatic_bug_reporting_tool *
oracle linux 7
redhat enterprise_linux 6.0
redhat enterprise_linux 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux_hpc_node 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux_server 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation 7.0
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