CVE-2015-5273

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 0.9%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDDec 7

1st PoCDec 1

exploitation probability

0.9%top 44% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache help program in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) before 2.7.1 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unpacked.cpio in a pre-created directory with a predictable name in /var/tmp.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/38835

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172809.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2505.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1262252 https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/50ee8130fb4cd4ef1af7682a2c85dd99cb99424e http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/01/1 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78113