01 Record

CVE-2015-1862

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.

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat

CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

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02 Description

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.

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation: Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision: Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability: 3.04% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile: Equal to or higher than the score of 87.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score: 7.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD analysis status: Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-08-26.
Red Hat severity: Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published

2018-02-09 22:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 04:54Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2015-02-17

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')Class

Data version

5.1

Document digest

c9002052addfa8efd55dd5256559b5bea17aadae85ba2ea13bc4384205c72b91

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms

abrt_projectabrtNot specified—

redhatautomatic_bug_reporting_toolNot specified—

redhatenterprise_linuxNot specified—

redhatstorageNot specified—

06 References

bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211223x_refsource_CONFIRM
www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20150414 Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworkshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/14/4mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131422/Fedora-abrt-Race-Condition.htmlx_refsource_MISC
www.exploit-db.com36746https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36746/exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131429/Abrt-Apport-Race-Condition-Symlink.htmlx_refsource_MISC
www.securityfocus.com74263http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74263vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
www.exploit-db.com36747https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36747/exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
github.comhttps://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/810x_refsource_CONFIRM
packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131423/Linux-Apport-Abrt-Local-Root-Exploit.htmlx_refsource_MISC
seclists.org20150414 Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworkshttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/34mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC