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CVE-2015-3159

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-3159 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) affecting Red Hat products. The abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache helper program fails to properly manage the process environment before executing abrt-action-install-debuginfo, allowing local users to gain elevated privileges. This vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a low attack complexity and requiring only local user privileges to achieve high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:automatic_bug_reporting_tool:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 17,061 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: abrt-0:2.0.8-26.el6_6.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libreport-0:2.0.9-21.el6_6.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: abrt-0:2.1.11-22.el7_1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libreport-0:2.1.11-23.el7_1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-3159Important

abrt: missing process environment sanitizaton in abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache

Apr 29, 2015

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / abrt/abrt/commit/9943a77bca37a0829ccd3784d1dfab37f8c24e7b
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / abrt/abrt/commit/9a4100678fea4d60ec93d35f4c5de2e9ad054f3a
PatchThird Party Advisory