Red Hat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE-2015-5287 Exploited
Red Hat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow local users with certain permissions to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file with a predictable name. The impacted product(s) could be end-of-life (EoL) and/or end-of-service (EoS). Users are advised to discontinue use and/or transition to a supported version.
Being exploited in the wild
Catalogued 26 August 2026 · US federal remediation deadline 9 September 2026
Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for…
Exploit code is also public: Metasploit · Exploit-DB · Public PoC
- Metasploitexploit/linux/local/abrt_sosreport_priv_esc
- Exploit-DBABRT - sosreport Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)
- Exploit-DBABRT - sosreport Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)
- Exploit-DBRHEL 7.0/7.1 - 'abrt/sosreport' Local Privilege Escalation
- Exploit-DBabrt (Centos 7.1 / Fedora 22) - Local Privilege Escalation
- Public PoCHORKimhab/CVE-2015-5287
Assessment
- CVSS
- Not yet scored
- Severity
- Unscored
- Known exploited
- Yes — listed in the CISA KEV catalog
- Exploit availability
- CISA KEV, Metasploit, Exploit-DB, Public PoC
- Published
- 26 August 2026
- Last updated
- 26 August 2026
- Affected
- Red Hat · Automatic Bug Reporting Tool
At the source
References
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