CVE-2015-1862

Abrt (Fedora 21) - Race Condition

Severity Score

7.0

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

La característica de reporte de cierres inesperados en Abrt permite que usuarios locales obtengan privilegios aprovechando un execve por root tras un chroot en un directorio especificado por el usuario en un entorno de espacio de nombres.

Various security issues relating to symlink attacks and race conditions with Abrt and Apport are documented here.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Complete

Integrity

Complete

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2015-02-17 CVE Reserved
2015-04-15 CVE Published
2023-03-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2024-08-06 First Exploit
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CAPEC

References (10)

URL	Tag	Source
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/34	Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/14/4	Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74263	Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211223	Issue Tracking

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36747	2024-08-06
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36746	2024-08-06
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131422/Fedora-abrt-Race-Condition.html	2024-08-06
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131423/Linux-Apport-Abrt-Local-Root-Exploit.html	2024-08-06
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131429/Abrt-Apport-Race-Condition-Symlink.html	2024-08-06

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/810	2018-03-08

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Abrt Project Search vendor "Abrt Project"		Abrt Search vendor "Abrt Project" for product "Abrt"				<= 2.2.0 Search vendor "Abrt Project" for product "Abrt" and version " <= 2.2.0"		-		Affected