CVE-2015-1862

Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-02-09 · updated 2026-08-26
Weakness: CWE-362

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.

Affected products

RedHat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool: through 2.2.0

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

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