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CVE-2015-1862
The crash reporting feature in Abrt allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an execve by root after a chroot into a…
High7.0EPSS 3.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
The crash reporting feature in Abrt allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an execve by root after a chroot into a user-specified directory in a namedspaced environment.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.0% · top 12% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211223 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150414 Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131422/Fedora-abrt-Race-Condition.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 36746 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131429/Abrt-Apport-Race-Condition-Symlink.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 74263 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 36747 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/810 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131423/Linux-Apport-Abrt-Local-Root-Exploit.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20150414 Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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