CVE-2015-5287

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.8
Exploitation: Known exploited (CISA KEV) · added 2026-08-26
Exploited per ENISA since 2026-08-26
EPSS: EPSS 5.00 % · percentile 92 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2015-12-07
Updated: 2026-08-27
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Analyzed

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.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 6.9	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-59

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2015-5264
GCVE · GCVE-0-2015-5287

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:redhat:automatic_bug_reporting_tool:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≤ 2.7.0
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
	affected n/a

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities	CC0 1.0
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD