CVE-2015-1870

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
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: 2017-06-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The event scripts in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) uses world-readable permission on a copy of sosreport file in problem directories, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from /var/log/messages via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

RedHat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool: through 2.1.11

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1083.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1210.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75119
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212868
https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/7d023c32a565e83306cddf34c894477b7aaf33d1
https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/8939398b82006ba1fec4ed491339fc075f43fc7c
https://github.com/abrt/libreport/commit/c962918bc70a61a8cc647898ee8b1ff1c14a87c5
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1083.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1210.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75119
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212868
https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/7d023c32a565e83306cddf34c894477b7aaf33d1

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