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CVE-2015-3147

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% 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

daemon/abrt-handle-upload.in in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT), when moving problem reports from /var/spool/abrt-upload, allows local users to write to arbitrary files or possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on (1) /var/spool/abrt or (2) /var/tmp/abrt.

Affected products

• RedHat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool: all versions
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.3, 7.4, 7.6, 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6 (+1)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.3, 7.6, 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1083.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/17/5
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212953
• https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3746b7627218438ae7d781fc8b18a221454e9091
• https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/955
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1083.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/17/5
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212953
• https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3746b7627218438ae7d781fc8b18a221454e9091
• https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/955

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