CVE-2015-5287

Red Hat · Published December 7, 2015

7.8

CVSS v3.1

HIGH

CISA KEV — Federal agencies must patch by deadline

Actively exploited in the wild

Patch availableGet patch

Description

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.

Affected Products

Automatic BUG Reporting Tool <= 2.7.0
Enterprise Linux Desktop
Enterprise Linux HPC Node
Enterprise Linux Server

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H