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CVE-2015-1862

high

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.

References

https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/810

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211223

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74263

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/34

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36747/

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36746/

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-1970

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/14/4

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131429/Abrt-Apport-Race-Condition-Symlink.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131423/Linux-Apport-Abrt-Local-Root-Exploit.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131422/Fedora-abrt-Race-Condition.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-02-09

Updated: 2026-08-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.03023