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CVE-2015-5287highunder attackCWE-59

CVE-2015-5287

86Vexday Risk Score

Patch now. It under exploitation confirmed by CISA and has a working public exploit.

ssvc Actcvss 7.8epss 5.0%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDDec 7
1st PoCDec 1
metasploitNov 23
CISA KEV+3915d
exploitation probability
5.0%top 8% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesCISA + VulnCheck
7 public exploit(s)
Action required by CISAfederal deadline: 2026-09-09

Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.

In short

A program in ABRT creates temporary files with predictable names that attackers can exploit using symlinks to gain elevated privileges on the system.

Technical detail

CWE-59 symlink attack: ABRT's abrt-hook-ccpp creates temporary files in predictable locations (/var/tmp/abrt/ or /var/spool/abrt/) without proper validation. A local user with limited permissions can create a symlink with the expected filename pointing to a sensitive target, and when abrt processes the file with elevated privileges, the attacker gains unauthorized privilege escalation.

Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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