CVE-2015-5287 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux and related products. The abrt-hook-ccpp help program is susceptible to a symlink attack, allowing local users with specific permissions to gain elevated privileges by manipulating predictably named files like /var/tmp/abrt/abrt-hax-coredump. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a medium attack complexity requiring local access. While not on the KEV catalog or actively exploited in the wild, public exploit code, including Metasploit modules and ExploitDB entries, is readily available. Despite the availability of exploits, there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| 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:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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