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CVE-2015-1869

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-1869  

Impact: Important Public Date: 2015-04-17 CWE: CWE-61 Bugzilla: 1212861: CVE-2015-1869 abrt: default event scripts follow symbolic links It was discovered that the default event handling scripts installed by ABRT did not handle symbolic links correctly. A local attacker with write access to an ABRT problem directory could use this flaw to escalate their privileges.

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It was discovered that the default event handling scripts installed by ABRT did not handle symbolic links correctly. A local attacker with write access to an ABRT problem directory could use this flaw to escalate their privileges.

Find out more about CVE-2015-1869 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 7.2
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

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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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