CVE-2015-5287: Red Hat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Name

Red Hat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Vendor

Red Hat

Product

Automatic Bug Reporting Tool

Added to the catalog

2026-08-26

Due date for US federal agencies

2026-09-09

Catalog version

2026.10.30

Red Hat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow local users with certain permissions to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file with a predictable name. The impacted product(s) could be end-of-life (EoL) and/or end-of-service (EoS). Users are advised to discontinue use and/or transition to a supported version.

Required action (CISA)

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.

Ransomware use: CISA does not mark known use of this vulnerability in ransomware campaigns.

Links in CISA's notes

• https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3c1b60cfa62d39e5fff5a53a5bc53dae189e740e
• https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk
• https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-implementation-guidance-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5287

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NVD analysis

Status

Analyzed

Published

2015-12-07T18:59:02.230

Last modified

2026-08-27T04:16:38.280

Weaknesses

CWE-59

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.

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154592/ABRT-sosreport-Privilege-Escalation.html (Third Party Advisory)
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2505.html (Vendor Advisory)
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/01/1 (Exploit)
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html (Third Party Advisory)
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78137 (Third Party Advisory)
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266837 (Exploit)
• https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3c1b60cfa62d39e5fff5a53a5bc53dae189e740e (Patch)
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38832/ (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154592/ABRT-sosreport-Privilege-Escalation.html (Third Party Advisory)
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2505.html (Vendor Advisory)
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/01/1 (Exploit)
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html (Third Party Advisory)
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78137 (Third Party Advisory)
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266837 (Exploit)
• https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3c1b60cfa62d39e5fff5a53a5bc53dae189e740e (Patch)
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38832/ (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• https://blog.talosintelligence.com/uat-10147-chinese-speaking-adversary-integrates-agentic-ai-into-post-compromise-operations/ (Third Party Advisory)
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2015-5287 (Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)

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CVE record

Assigner

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Published

2015-12-07T18:00:00.000Z

Updated

2026-08-27T03:56:39.465Z

Problem types

n/a

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.

References

• RHSA-2015:2505
• 38832
• [oss-security] 20151201 CVE-2015-5273 + CVE-2015-5287, abrt local root in Centos/Fedora/RHEL
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266837
• 78137
• https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3c1b60cfa62d39e5fff5a53a5bc53dae189e740e
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154592/ABRT-sosreport-Privilege-Escalation.html

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Defensive techniques (MITRE D3FEND)

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