{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2015-11-23T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "abrt: incorrect permissions on /var/spool/abrt",
    "id" : "1266837",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266837"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.9",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "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.", "It was discovered that the kernel-invoked coredump processor provided by ABRT did not handle symbolic links correctly when writing core dumps of ABRT programs to the ABRT dump directory (/var/spool/abrt).  A local attacker with write access to an ABRT problem directory could use this flaw to escalate their privileges." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Philip Pettersson (Samsung) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2015-11-23T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2015:2505",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "abrt-0:2.1.11-35.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2015-11-23T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2015:2505",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "libreport-0:2.1.11-31.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "abrt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5287\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5287\nhttps://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2015-5287",
  "csaw" : false
}