CVE-2015-3315

CVE-2015-3315 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) affecting various Red Hat Enterprise Linux products. This flaw allows a local attacker to perform a symlink attack on specific files and directories, leading to arbitrary file reading, ownership changes, or other unspecified impacts. With a CVSSv3 score of 7.8 (High), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, but can result in high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. Exploit code is publicly available, including a Metasploit module, though there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild and minimal community discussion or media coverage.