libreport ABRT Post-Create Event Handler Vulnerabilities

Local privilege escalation via arbitrary root-owned file overwrite affects libreport's ABRT post-create event handler scripts on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8. The event scripts write output using shell redirections that lack the O_NOFOLLOW flag, so a local low-privileged user who plants a symlink in a writable crash-dump path can cause the root shell to follow it and clobber any file on the system, which can be leveraged for full system compromise. SSVC rates technical impact as total, but there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS is negligible (0.02%, 5th percentile).

Content injection in libreport's ABRT post-create event handler grants a low-privileged local user the ability to control file content that the root process writes into crash dump directories. When a monitored process crashes, the event handler script queries the systemd journal for matching log entries and writes the results directly to dump directory files without stripping embedded control characters - allowing an attacker who can write syslog messages to pre-position newline-delimited payloads that corrupt or inject arbitrary lines into those root-owned files. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, and exploitation is constrained to local access with low privileges.