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CVE-2015-1862

The crash reporting feature in Abrt allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an execve by root after a chroot

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.

HIGH · CVSS 7 EPSS 0.05407
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  • EPSS percentile: top 10% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
  • Public exploit or PoC is available
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
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Affected Products & Versions

1
abrt project abrt<= 2.2.0
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Public Exploits & PoCs

7
localAbrt (Fedora 21) - Race Conditionverified
localApport/Abrt (Ubuntu / Fedora) - Local Privilege Escalationverified
pocpacketstormsecurity.com · Fedora-abrt-Race-Condition.htmlpacketstormsecurity.com
pocpacketstormsecurity.com · Linux-Apport-Abrt-Local-Root-Exploit.htmlpacketstormsecurity.com
pocpacketstormsecurity.com · Abrt-Apport-Race-Condition-Symlink.htmlpacketstormsecurity.com
pocwww.exploit-db.com · 36746www.exploit-db.com
pocwww.exploit-db.com · 36747www.exploit-db.com
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Scoring & Timeline

7
HIGH · CVSS v3.0 · secalert@redhat.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD09 Feb 2018 · 10:29 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/34Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/14/4Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74263Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211223Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/810Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
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