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CVE-2026-54231

Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool

A content injection vulnerability was found in the ABRT post-create event handler scripts in libreport. The event script queries the systemd journal for log entries matching the crashed process and writes the results to files in the dump directory without sanitizing embedded control characters. A local user can inject arbitrary content into the journal output by embedding newline characters in syslog messages, controlling the content that root writes to dump directory files.

Exploitation status

  • A vendor advisory or patch reference has been published.

What the metrics mean

  • It is requires local access to the machine.
  • For an attacker who can reach it, no special conditions are needed to exploit it.
  • To exploit it, an ordinary user account is needed.
  • Beyond that, no action by a user is required.

Scoring

CVSS
5.5 (v3.1)
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weakness
CWE-74
Assigned by
secalert@redhat.com

Dates

Published
2026-06-13
Last modified
2026-08-26
Sources
NVD

Affected products

  • Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Toolall versions
  • Fedoraproject Fedora43, 44
  • Redhat Enterprise Linux7.0, 8.0

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

References