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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 user-specified directory in a namedspaced environment.

    Published:Apr 14, 2015
    Last Modified:Aug 26, 2026
    EPS:Feb 9, 2018
    EPSS Score:0.03023
    CVSS Score:7

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Automatic Bug Reporting Tool

    Exploits

    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131422/Fedora-abrt-Race-Condition.htmlhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131423/Linux-Apport-Abrt-Local-Root-Exploit.htmlhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131429/Abrt-Apport-Race-Condition-Symlink.htmlhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36746/https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36747/http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131422/Fedora-abrt-Race-Condition.htmlhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131423/Linux-Apport-Abrt-Local-Root-Exploit.htmlhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131429/Abrt-Apport-Race-Condition-Symlink.htmlhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36746/https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36747/https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36747https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36746

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2026-54231 (CVSS 5.5) — A content injection vulnerability was found in the ABRT post-create event handler scripts in libreport. The ev…
    CVE-2026-54230 (CVSS 7) — A symlink following vulnerability was found in the ABRT post-create event handler scripts in libreport. Event …
    CVE-2015-5287 (CVSS 7.8) — The abrt-hook-ccpp help program in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) before 2.7.1 allows local users with ce…
    CVE-2015-5273 (CVSS 3.6) — The abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache help program in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) before 2.7…
    CVE-2015-3159 (CVSS 7.8) — The abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache help program in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) does not p…
    CVE-2015-3150 (CVSS 7.1) — abrt-dbus in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) allows local users to delete or change the ownership of arbit…
    CVE-2015-3151 (CVSS 7.8) — Directory traversal vulnerability in abrt-dbus in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) allows local users to re…
    CVE-2015-1870 (CVSS 5.5) — The event scripts in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) uses world-readable permission on a copy of sosreport…
    CVE-2015-1869 (CVSS 7.8) — The default event handling scripts in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) allow local users to gain privileges…
    CVE-2015-3147 (CVSS 6.5) — daemon/abrt-handle-upload.in in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT), when moving problem reports from /var/spo…

    References

    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131422/Fedora-abrt-Race-Condition.html
    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131423/Linux-Apport-Abrt-Local-Root-Exploit.html
    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131429/Abrt-Apport-Race-Condition-Symlink.html
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/34
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/14/4
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74263
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211223
    https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/810
    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36746/
    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36747/
    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131422/Fedora-abrt-Race-Condition.html
    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131423/Linux-Apport-Abrt-Local-Root-Exploit.html
    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131429/Abrt-Apport-Race-Condition-Symlink.html
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/34
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/14/4
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74263
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211223
    https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/810
    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36746/
    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36747/

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High