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High · 7.8 Known exploited Public exploit CVE-2015-5287 EUVD-2015-5264GHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5

The abrt-hook-ccpp help program in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) before 2.7.1 allows local users with certain permissions to gain pri…

Published Dec 7, 2015 · Updated Aug 27, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

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.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Red Hat

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 7 abrt +20 2.1.11-35.el7 RHSA-2015:2505
RHEL 7 libreport +21 2.1.11-31.el7 RHSA-2015:2505

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 7 abrt +20 2.1.11-35.0.1.el7 ELSA-2015-2505
Oracle Linux 7 libreport +19 2.1.11-31.0.1.el7 ELSA-2015-2505

Public exploits

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Metasploit 1 module

Exploit-DB 3

GitHub 1 repository

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Advisories 2

References