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CVE-2015-5287
CWE-59
High
88.2
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
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.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 7.8
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 4.96%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Aug 2026
- Fix commit
- Fix commit known
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-59
- Published
- 7 Dec 2015
- Last modified 27 Aug 2026
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time