EUVD-2026-36637
GHSA-6pjg-wmm6-r8rp
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AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Local authenticated user racing a TOCTOU window justifies AV:L/AC:H/PR:L; primitive is root-owned file write so I:H, with limited confidentiality and availability impact.
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A time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition was found in the abrt-dbus D-Bus service's SetElement method. Between dump directory creation and post-create event execution, any local user can call SetElement to write arbitrary text files into the root-owned dump directory, bypassing package validation and allowing crashes of unpackaged binaries to survive post-create processing.
AnalysisAI
Local privilege escalation in the abrt-dbus D-Bus service on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8 allows any unprivileged local user to win a TOCTOU race against the SetElement method, writing arbitrary text files into root-owned dump directories. By exploiting the gap between dump directory creation and post-create event execution, an attacker bypasses package validation and persists crash data for unpackaged binaries inside privileged paths, with no public exploit identified at time of analysis.
Technical ContextAI
abrt (Automatic Bug Reporting Tool) exposes a D-Bus interface that lets local users submit crash data; the SetElement method writes named elements into a per-crash dump directory owned by root. The flaw is a classic CWE-367 Time-of-Check Time-of-Use race: abrt-dbus validates the dump directory state at creation, but a concurrent SetElement call from a local user can mutate the directory contents before the post-create event handler runs its package-ownership and policy checks. Because abrt's post-create hooks normally discard crashes from unpackaged binaries, winning the race lets attacker-controlled text files survive into a root-owned directory that would otherwise be cleaned up, undermining a security control the rest of the abrt pipeline relies on.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch version is identified at time of analysis in the supplied data, so monitor https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-54228 and Bugzilla 2488531 and apply the abrt/abrt-dbus errata for each RHEL stream as soon as Red Hat publishes them, prioritizing RHEL 8 where standard maintenance still applies and using Extended Lifecycle Support channels for RHEL 6/7 if available. As compensating controls until patches land, stop and mask the abrt-dbus service (systemctl mask abrtd abrt-dbus) on systems that do not actively rely on automatic crash reporting, accepting that local crashes will no longer be collected for support cases; alternatively, restrict the org.freedesktop.problems D-Bus interface via a polkit/D-Bus policy that limits SetElement to administrators, which preserves crash collection for privileged users but breaks user-space crash uploads. Avoid generic hardening alone - the race is in privileged code, so SELinux in enforcing mode and tight /var/spool/abrt permissions reduce but do not eliminate exposure.
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Severity: Important| Product | Status |
|---|---|
| SUSE Liberty Linux 8 | Fixed |
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