CVE-2015-1862

HighCVSS 7.0/10Last modified Aug 26, 2026

Description

The crash reporting feature in Abrt allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an execve by root after a chroot into a user-specified directory in a namedspaced environment.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.0/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Feb 9, 2018
Last modified: Aug 26, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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