CVE-2012-5660

Automatic Bug Reporting Tool < 2.0.9 - Privilege Escalation via Symlink Attack

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

abrt-action-install-debuginfo in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to set world-writable permissions for arbitrary files and possibly gain privileges via a symlink attack on "the directories used to store information about crashes."

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887866

Scores

EPSS 0.0031
EPSS Percentile 23.1%

Details

CWE
CWE-264 CWE-362
Status published
Products (12)
redhat/automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.0
redhat/automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.1
redhat/automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.2
redhat/automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.3
redhat/automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.4
redhat/automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.4.980
redhat/automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.4.981
redhat/automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.5
redhat/automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.6
redhat/automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.0.7
... and 2 more
Published Mar 12, 2013
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026