abrt-dbus D-Bus Service Race Condition Flaws
2026-06-13
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.
Local privilege escalation in the abrt-dbus D-Bus service on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8 allows a low-privileged local user to race the ChownProblemDir method against still-running post-create event handlers. By invoking ChownProblemDir while privileged event scripts hold a write lock on the dump directory, the attacker gains filesystem ownership of files being written by root-context handlers, enabling tampering with privileged output and potential privilege escalation. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV.