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Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool

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.

What this means for your business

  • It affects Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool. It matters if your company, or a supplier that handles your data, runs it.
  • Code showing how to exploit it has been published, but real attacks have not been confirmed.
  • An attacker can use it only with access to the machine itself, with an ordinary user login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.

What to do

  1. 1Check whether your company or your suppliers run Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool, and which version. The affected versions are listed further down this page.
  2. 2If you do, apply the vendor's fix. A patch or vendor advisory has been published.

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Scoring

CVSS
7.0 (v3.0)
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-362
Assigned by
secalert@redhat.com

Dates

Published
2018-02-09
Last modified
2026-08-26
Sources
NVD

Affected products

  • Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool- 2.2.0

As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.

References