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CVE-2015-1869

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-01-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The default event handling scripts in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) allow local users to gain privileges as demonstrated by a symlink attack on a var_log_messages file.

Affected products

• RedHat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool: all versions

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/17/5
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212861
• https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3287aa12eb205cff95cdd00d6d6c5c9a4f8f0eca
• https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/7417505e1d93cc95ec648b74e3c801bc67aacb9f
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/17/5
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212861
• https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3287aa12eb205cff95cdd00d6d6c5c9a4f8f0eca
• https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/7417505e1d93cc95ec648b74e3c801bc67aacb9f

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