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…
- 7.0HighCVSS base score
- 3.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 12% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Apport/Abrt (Ubuntu / Fedora) - Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36746local, linuxpublished 14 Apr 2015Verified
- Abrt (Fedora 21) - Race Condition (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36747local, linuxpublished 14 Apr 2015Verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 36746 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 36747 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.0% · top 12% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211223 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150414 Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131422/Fedora-abrt-Race-Condition.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 36746 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131429/Abrt-Apport-Race-Condition-Symlink.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 74263 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 36747 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/810 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131423/Linux-Apport-Abrt-Local-Root-Exploit.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20150414 Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-1970 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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