CVE-2015-5287: Red Hat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
In CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: Red Hat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool Privilege Escalation Vulnerability.
Added , federal remediation due . Known ransomware use: Unknown.
Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.
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.
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Status incidents that name it
No tracked status incident names this CVE.
Affected vendors and products
Red Hat: Automatic Bug Reporting Tool
References
- CVE record on cve.org (opens in new tab)
- NVD entry (opens in new tab)
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/154592/ABRT-sosreport-Privilege-Escalation.html (opens in new tab)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2505.html (opens in new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (opens in new tab)
- github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3c1b60cfa62d39e5fff5a53a5bc53dae189e740e (opens in new tab)
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38832/ (opens in new tab)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/01/1 (opens in new tab)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html (opens in new tab)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/78137 (opens in new tab)
- CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (opens in new tab)
- This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (opens in new tab)
- Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (opens in new tab)
- EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (opens in new tab)