CVE-2015-1870

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2015-04-17
CWE:
CWE-200
Bugzilla:
1212868: CVE-2015-1870 abrt: default abrt event scripts lead to information disclosure
It was found that the ABRT event scripts created a user-readable copy of an sosreport file in ABRT problem directories, and included excerpts of /var/log/messages selected by the user-controlled process name, leading to an information disclosure. The fix for this issue prevents non-privileged users from accessing any crash reports, even reports of crashes of processes owned by those users. Only administrators (the wheel group members) are allowed to access crash reports via the "System" tab in the ABRT GUI, or by running abrt-cli as root (that is, via "sudo abrt-cli" or "su -c abrt-cli").

Find out more about CVE-2015-1870 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 2.1
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (abrt) RHSA-2015:1210 2015-07-07
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (abrt) RHSA-2015:1083 2015-06-09

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

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