CVE-2026-54230

⚠️ high

Summary

A symlink following vulnerability was found in the ABRT post-create event handler scripts in libreport. Event scripts write output files using shell redirections without the O_NOFOLLOW flag. If the target file is replaced with a symlink, the shell process running as root follows the symlink and writes content to the symlink target, allowing arbitrary file overwrites on the system.

CVSS Score

7.0

High

EPSS Score

0.2

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2026-06-13

First Seen: 2026-06-14

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Moderate Risk - more severe than 50.7% of all 350,976 vulnerabilities in our database.

#172,912

Above average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Jun 15, 2026

🔍 Exploitation Status

None

No known exploits

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Total

Complete system compromise possible

🏆 Discovered By

Red Hat would like to thank Red Team (Deutsche Telekom Security GmbH) for reporting this issue.

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2026-08-26

Source NVD 🔗

CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-59

📦 Affected Products 6

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
redhat	enterprise_linux	Affected	v7.0
redhat	enterprise_linux	Affected	v8.0
fedoraproject	fedora	Affected	v43
fedoraproject	fedora	Affected	v44
redhat	automatic_bug_reporting_tool	Affected	All versions
abrt_project	abrt	Affected	All versions

🔗 References 4

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54272

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-54230

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488568

Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory

https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/...

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