cve/2015/CVE-2015-5287.md

CVE-2015-5287

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.

POC

Reference

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154592/ABRT-sosreport-Privilege-Escalation.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38832/

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon