CVE-2015-5287
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8 · CWE-59 · actively exploited (CISA KEV)
7.8CVSS HIGH exploited
Actively exploited in the wild (CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities).
Added to KEV 2026-08-26. US federal agencies must patch by 2026-09-09.
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
This vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild — patch affected products urgently. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3c1b60cfa62d39e5fff5a53a5bc53dae189e740e ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3c1b60cfa62d39e5fff5a53a5bc53dae189e740ePatch
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2505.htmlAdvisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154592/ABRT-sosreport-Privilege-Escalation.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78137Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38832/Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/01/1Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266837Exploit