Automatic Bug Reporting Tool vulnerabilitiesAnd the versions its exploited flaws hit.

Product1 known exploited67 versions
The short answer

Automatic Bug Reporting Tool is made by Red Hat. We track 14 published vulnerabilities in it, across 67 versions. 1 of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited, the newest added on 26 August 2026. If you run Automatic Bug Reporting Tool, check your version against the exploited flaws below and patch those first.

Check your version

The most recent Automatic Bug Reporting Tool flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2015-5287, on 26 August 2026. We keep watching the known-exploited list.

Versions

Which versions of Automatic Bug Reporting Tool do the exploited flaws hit?

Each exploited flaw lists the versions it affects, as published by the vendor. Find your version, then patch.

  • CVE-2015-5287Exploited list, 26 Aug 2026

    Red Hat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

    up to 2.7.0
Known exploited

Which Automatic Bug Reporting Tool vulnerabilities are being exploited?

1 flaw is on the government list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited. These are the ones criminals are using now, so they go first, whatever their severity score says.

  1. 6.9
    CVE-2015-5287MediumKnown exploited
    Red Hat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

    Red Hat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow local users with certain permissions to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file with a predictable name.

    Chance of use5.0%Known exploited since26 Aug 2026
Exploit likelihood

Which Automatic Bug Reporting Tool flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 5.0%
    CVE-2015-5287MediumKnown exploited

    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...

    CVSS6.9Published7 Dec 2015
  2. 4.8%

    Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) allows local users to read, change the ownership of, or have other unspecified impact on arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /var/tmp/abrt/*/maps, (2)...

    CVSS7.8Published26 Jun 2017
  3. 1.1%

    daemon/abrt-handle-upload.in in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT), when moving problem reports from /var/spool/abrt-upload, allows local users to write to arbitrary files or possibly have other unspecified impact...

    CVSS6.5Published14 Jan 2020
  4. 0.9%

    The abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache help program in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) before 2.7.1 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unpacked.cpio in a pre-created...

    CVSS3.6Published7 Dec 2015
  5. 0.6%

    Directory traversal vulnerability in abrt-dbus in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) allows local users to read, write to, or change ownership of arbitrary files via unspecified vectors to the (1) NewProblem, (2)...

    CVSS7.8Published14 Jan 2020
  6. 0.4%

    Untrusted search path vulnerability in plugins/abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache.c in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to load and execute arbitrary Python modules by...

    CVSS3.7Published12 Mar 2013
  7. 0.4%

    The C handler plug-in in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT), possibly 2.0.8 and earlier, does not properly set the group (GID) permissions on core dump files for setuid programs when the sysctl fs.suid_dumpable...

    CVSS1.9Published3 Jul 2012
  8. 0.4%

    The event scripts in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) uses world-readable permission on a copy of sosreport file in problem directories, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from...

    CVSS5.5Published26 Jun 2017
  9. 0.4%

    The default event handling scripts in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) allow local users to gain privileges as demonstrated by a symlink attack on a var_log_messages file.

    CVSS7.8Published14 Jan 2020
  10. 0.4%

    abrt-dbus in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) allows local users to delete or change the ownership of arbitrary files via the problem directory argument to the (1) ChownProblemDir, (2) DeleteElement, or (3)...

    CVSS7.1Published14 Jan 2020
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We track 14 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Automatic Bug Reporting Tool, across 67 versions. The most recent Automatic Bug Reporting Tool flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2015-5287, on 26 August 2026.

1 is on the list of flaws known to be exploited. The most recently added is CVE-2015-5287.

Each flaw names its own versions, usually as ranges. The newest, CVE-2015-5287, affects up to 2.7.0. The versions for every exploited flaw are listed on this page.

Create a Precursor Intelligence account and track Automatic Bug Reporting Tool. We match it against every published flaw, give each one a risk score from 0 to 100 and keep watching, so you hear about new ones as soon as we know, by email, in the app or by webhook.