CVE-2015-3315
Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) allows local users to read, change the ownership of, or have other unspecified impact on arbitrary…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 4.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) allows local users to read, change the ownership of, or have other unspecified impact on arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /var/tmp/abrt/*/maps, (2) /tmp/jvm-*/hs_error.log, (3) /proc/*/exe, (4) /etc/os-release in a chroot, or (5) an unspecified root directory related to librpm.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- ABRT raceabrt Privilege Escalation (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/local/abrt_raceabrt_priv_escRank excellentdisclosed 14 Apr 2015
Exploit-DB2 entries
- ABRT - 'raceabrt' Privilege Escalation (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 44097local, linuxpublished 16 Feb 2018Verified
- Abrt (Fedora 21) - Race Condition (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36747local, linuxpublished 14 Apr 2015Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 44097 (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 mitre
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.8% · top 8.0% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211835 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/80408e9e24a1c10f85fd969e1853e0f192157f92 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150416 Re: Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150414 Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1083 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/17cb66b13997b0159b4253b3f5722db79f476d68 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/d6e2f6f128cef4c21cb80941ae674c9842681aa7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 75117 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 44097 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1210 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/4f2c1ddd3e3b81d2d5146b883115371f1cada9f9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2015-3361 (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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