High RHSA-2026:48866 2 CVEs

Red Hat Security Advisory: abrt security update

Published Aug 1, 2026 · Updated Aug 13, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 1

Release	Package	Fixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	abrt-dbus	0:2.1.11-61.el7_9

Vulnerabilities 2

High 7.8

CVE-2026-54228

Abrt: toctou race condition in abrt-dbus setelement allows arbitrary file writes to dump directories

A time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition was found in the abrt-dbus D-Bus service's SetElement method. Between dump directory creation and post-create event execution, any local user can call SetElement to write arbitrary text files into the root-o…

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support Linux

Jun 13, 2026
High 7.0

CVE-2026-54229

Abrt: chownproblemdir succeeds during active post-create event processing due to inadequate locking

A race condition was found in the abrt-dbus D-Bus service's ChownProblemDir method. ChownProblemDir opens the dump directory with DD_OPEN_READONLY and calls dd_chown to change ownership of all files to the caller's uid, succeeding even while post-create event…

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support Linux

Jun 13, 2026

References

article
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488531
report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488532
advisory
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_48866.json
report
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-54228
advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-54228
advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54228
report
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-54229
advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-54229
advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54229