# CVE-2015-3151: Directory traversal vulnerability in abrt-dbus in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) allows local users to read, write to, or change owners

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-01-14 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- ABRT: before 7a47f57975be0d285a2f20758e4572dca6d9cdd3

## Description

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) GetInfo, (3) SetElement, or (4) DeleteElement method.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ABRT, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2015-3151
- https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/c796c76341ee846cfb897ed645bac211d7d0a932
- https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/f3c2a6af3455b2882e28570e8a04f1c2d4500d5b
- https://github.com/abrt/libreport/commit/54ecf8d017580b495d6501e53ca54e453a73a364
- https://github.com/abrt/libreport/commit/239c4f7d1f47265526b39ad70106767d00805277
- https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/7a47f57975be0d285a2f20758e4572dca6d9cdd3

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