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CVE-2015-1862 json

The crash reporting feature in Abrt allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an execve by root after a chroot into a user-specif…

published 8y ago modified 2mo ago also EUVD-2015-1970

cvss
7.0
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

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red hat product security vex CVE-2015-1862 updated cvss 7.2

abrt: local privilege escalation through kernel.core_pattern

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 abrt, abrt-cli, abrt-gui, abrt-tui, abrt-libs, abrt-python, +6 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 abrt, abrt-cli, abrt-gui, abrt-tui, abrt-dbus, abrt-libs, +12 more Red Hat Storage 3 abrt
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-36747)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

3.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-36747 Abrt (Fedora 21) - Race Condition local, 2015-04-14
  • EDB-36746 Apport/Abrt (Ubuntu / Fedora) - Local Privilege Escalation local, 2015-04-14
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131422/Fedora-abrt-Race-Condition.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131429/Abrt-Apport-Race-Condition-Symlink.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131423/Linux-Apport-Abrt-Local-Root-Exploit.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Sources

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