CVE-2015-5273 describes a local file write vulnerability in the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora. An attacker can exploit a symlink race condition in the abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache program to write to arbitrary files. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 3.6, indicating local access and partial impact on integrity and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild, an exploit for local privilege escalation is publicly available on ExploitDB, and there has been some community discussion regarding its potential.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:automatic_bug_reporting_tool:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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