CVE-2015-5287

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-5287
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-12-07 18:59:02 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 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

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.9 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-59 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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 Hpc Node 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

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
RHEL 7.0/7.1 - 'abrt/sosreport' Local Privilege Escalation - Linux local Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com
oss-security - CVE-2015-5273 + CVE-2015-5287, abrt local root in Centos/Fedora/RHEL af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Exploit
ccpp: save abrt core files only to new files · abrt/abrt@3c1b60c · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
Bug 1266837 – CVE-2015-5287 abrt: incorrect permissions on /var/spool/abrt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit
abrt '/var/spool/abrt' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
ABRT sosreport Privilege Escalation ≈ Packet Storm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 packetstormsecurity.com
Oracle Linux Bulletin - October 2015 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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