CVE-2015-1862
HighCVSS 7.0Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
High risk86th percentile - higher than 86% of all known CVEs
Summary
The crash reporting feature in Abrt allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an execve by root after a chroot into a user-specified directory in a namedspaced environment.
Risk Assessment
A local user can gain root privileges, leading to full system compromise.
Recommendation
Upgrade Abrt to a patched version and restrict local user permissions.
Other vulnerabilities in Abrt
See all- CVE-2015-5287HighActively exploited
The abrt-hook-ccpp help program in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) before 2.7.1 allows local users with certain permissions to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file with a predictable name.
- CVE-2026-54229High
A race condition was found in the abrt-dbus D-Bus service's ChownProblemDir method. It allows an attacker to gain filesystem-level control of the dump directory while privileged event scripts are still running.
- CVE-2026-54228High
A TOCTOU race condition was found in the SetElement method of the abrt-dbus D-Bus service. Between dump directory creation and post-create event execution, any local user can call SetElement to write arbitrary text files into the root-owned dump directory, bypassing package validation and allowing crashes of unpackaged binaries to survive.
- CVE-2011-4088High
ABRT might allow attackers to obtain sensitive information from crash reports.
Original NVD description (English source)
The crash reporting feature in Abrt allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an execve by root after a chroot into a user-specified directory in a namedspaced environment.