CVE-2015-5287

Summary

CVECVE-2015-5287
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-12-07 18:59:00 UTC
Updated2016-12-07 18:16:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
abrt '/var/spool/abrt' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
RHEL 7.0/7.1 - 'abrt/sosreport' Local Privilege Escalation - Linux local Exploit EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com
ABRT sosreport Privilege Escalation ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
Oracle Linux Bulletin - October 2015 CONFIRM www.oracle.com
ccpp: save abrt core files only to new files · abrt/abrt@3c1b60c · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
oss-security - CVE-2015-5273 + CVE-2015-5287, abrt local root in Centos/Fedora/RHEL MLIST www.openwall.com Exploit
Bug 1266837 – CVE-2015-5287 abrt: incorrect permissions on /var/spool/abrt CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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