CVE-2015-1862 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Abrt crash reporting feature, affecting the abrt_project abrt product. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.0) allows a local, low-privileged attacker to execute arbitrary code as root by exploiting a race condition during an execve call after a chroot into a user-specified directory within a namespaced environment. While not listed on the KEV catalog or Hot List, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, indicating a clear path for exploitation. Despite this, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and community discussion and media coverage remain minimal.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:abrt_project:abrt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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