CVE-2015-3142

4.7 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (4.7) in redhat automatic bug reporting tool. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The kernel-invoked coredump processor in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) does not properly check the ownership of files before writing core dumps to them, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging write permissions to the working directory of a crashed application.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

4.7 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 28% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-200
Published: 2017-06-26
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

redhat:automatic_bug_reporting_tool

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1083.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1210.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/17/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75116
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212818

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