CVE-2015-3142: Red Hat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. 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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool: up to and including 2.1.11

Published 2017-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.