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.
CVE-2015-5287
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-08-26), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.8 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.
Also known asEUVD-2015-5264 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.8
- EG Score
- 9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 75EG Risk 75/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity78% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation100% × 40%Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact. - EPSS PROB
- 5.0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 92nd
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.8 HIGH.
- EG Severity
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 5.0% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
CISA required action“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 evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.”
Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3c1b60cfa62d39e5fff5a53a5bc53dae189e740e · https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk · https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-implementation-guidance-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5287
Published
December 7, 2015
Last Modified
August 27, 2026
Advisory Details (7)
Auto-updated Oct 26, 2026Packet Storm
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154592/ABRT-sosreport-Privilege-Escalation.htmlRHEL 7.0/7.1 - 'abrt/sosreport' Local Privilege Escalation - Linux local Exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38832/commit 3c1b60cfa62d (abrt/abrt)
Patch available: abrt/abrt 2.14.5 (contains commit 3c1b60cfa62d)
https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3c1b60cfa62d39e5fff5a53a5bc53dae189e740e1266837 – (CVE-2015-5287) CVE-2015-5287 abrt: incorrect permissions on /var/spool/abrt
Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266837oss-security - CVE-2015-5273 + CVE-2015-5287, abrt local root in Centos/Fedora/RHEL
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/01/1Vendor Advisories for CVE-2015-5287(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(1)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | libreport-0:2.1.11-31.el7 | 2015-11-23 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
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Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 23× in last 7d / 199× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
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- 2026-11-01 12:10 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 12:10 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-11-01 12:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-31 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 92nd percentile
- 2026-10-31 10:41 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-31 10:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-30 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 92nd percentile
- 2026-10-30 09:11 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-30 09:11 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-30 09:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-29 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 92nd percentile
- 2026-10-29 07:43 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-29 07:43 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-29 07:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-28 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 92nd percentile
- 2026-10-28 06:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 06:15 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-28 06:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-27 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 92nd percentile
- 2026-10-27 04:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 04:47 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-27 04:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-26 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 92nd percentile
- 2026-10-26 03:18 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-26 03:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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- 2026-10-25 19:54 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 92nd percentile
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- 2026-10-25 01:49 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-25 01:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-24 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 92nd percentile
- 2026-10-24 00:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-24 00:21 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-24 00:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-23 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 92nd percentile
- 2026-10-22 22:52 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-22 22:52 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-22 22:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-22 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 92nd percentile
- 2026-10-21 21:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-21 21:22 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-21 21:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-21 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 92nd percentile
- 2026-10-20 19:52 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 19:52 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-20 19:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-20 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 92nd percentile
- 2026-10-19 18:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-19 18:23 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-19 18:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-19 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 92nd percentile
- 2026-10-18 16:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-18 16:53 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-18 16:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-18 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 92nd percentile
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- 2026-10-17 15:22 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-17 15:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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- 2026-10-16 13:54 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-15 12:26 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-15 12:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-14 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 92nd percentile
- 2026-10-14 10:55 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 10:55 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-14 10:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-13 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 92nd percentile
- 2026-10-13 09:26 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-13 09:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-12 20:52 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 91st percentile
- 2026-10-12 07:57 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 07:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-12 03:41 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 03:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-11 23:24 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-11 23:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-11 19:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 19:08 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 19:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-11 14:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 14:53 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 14:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-11 13:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.0% · 91st percentile
- 2026-10-11 10:37 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 10:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-11 06:21 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 06:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-11 02:05 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 02:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-10 21:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-10 21:45 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 21:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hf8c-7p7w-mch5 · GitHub CVSS 7.8
Publicly available exploits
(4 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 3 Exploit-DB entries). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- Exploit-DBEDB-47421✓ verifiedPublished Sep 25, 2019
ABRT - sosreport Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)
Open source ↗ - Metasploitexploit/linux/local/abrt_sosreport_priv_esc✓ verifiedPublished Sep 24, 2019
ABRT sosreport Privilege Escalation
Open source ↗ - Exploit-DBEDB-38832✓ verifiedPublished Dec 1, 2015
RHEL 7.0/7.1 - 'abrt/sosreport' Local Privilege Escalation
Open source ↗ - Exploit-DBEDB-38835✓ verifiedPublished Dec 1, 2015
abrt (Centos 7.1 / Fedora 22) - Local Privilege Escalation
Open source ↗
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