CVE-2015-3142

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% 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 kernel-invoked coredump processor in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) does not properly check the ownership of files before writing core dumps to them, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging write permissions to the working directory of a crashed application.

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.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/17/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75116
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212818
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1083.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1210.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/17/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75116
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212818

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