CVE-2015-5287

38Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 3.3%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDDec 7

1st PoCDec 1

metasploitNov 23

exploitation probability

3.3%top 13% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

5 public exploit(s)

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, as demonstrated by /var/tmp/abrt/abrt-hax-coredump or /var/spool/abrt/abrt-hax-coredump.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 5

cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/154592/ABRT-sosreport-Privilege-Escalation.htmlunverified cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/38832/unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/47421unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/38832unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/38835unverified

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

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154592/ABRT-sosreport-Privilege-Escalation.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2505.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266837 https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3c1b60cfa62d39e5fff5a53a5bc53dae189e740e https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38832/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/78137