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CVE-2015-5287: Red Hat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2026-08-26
• EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-12-07 · updated 2026-08-27
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The abrt-hook-ccpp help program in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) before 2.7.1 allows local users with certain permissions to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file with a predictable name, as demonstrated by /var/tmp/abrt/abrt-hax-coredump or /var/spool/abrt/abrt-hax-coredump.

Affected products

• Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux: 7
• RedHat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool: through 2.7.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154592/ABRT-sosreport-Privilege-Escalation.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2505.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/01/1
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78137
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266837
• https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3c1b60cfa62d39e5fff5a53a5bc53dae189e740e
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38832/
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154592/ABRT-sosreport-Privilege-Escalation.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2505.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/01/1
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

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