CVE 2026 110331

A flaw was found in abrt. The completeness check introduced to mitigate CVE-2026-54228 and CVE-2026-54229 only verifies that a dump directory contains a "count" element, which an unprivileged user can create. This allows a local attacker to bypass the guard and again poison elements in, or seize ownership of, dump directories while privileged ABRT handlers are processing them. Related Problems2 mutating methods remain ungated by the same check.

This issue is distinct from CVE-2026-54228 and CVE-2026-54229: it concerns an incomplete mitigation that leaves those primitives reachable. The O_NOFOLLOW-less shell writes in event handlers are tracked separately as CVE-2026-54230.

Disable or remove ABRT if not required: systemctl disable --now abrtd.service abrt-journal-core.service abrt-oops.service abrt-xorg.service. Restrict local interactive user access on systems that keep abrt installed. Note that abrt-dbus is D-Bus activatable even when abrtd is stopped.

Bugzilla 2552067 : abrt: abrt: incomplete CVE-2026-54228/54229 fix — completeness gate bypassed via attacker-supplied count element

CWE-862 : Missing Authorization

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS v3 Score Breakdown

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

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

Red Hat CVSS v3 Score Explanation

Incomplete mitigation of CVE-2026-54228/54229: completeness equals presence of attacker-suppliable count element, restoring unprivileged element poisoning and dump-dir ownership seizure while privileged handlers run.

Understanding the Weakness (CWE)

Technical Impact: Read Application Data; Read Files or Directories

An attacker could read sensitive data, either by reading the data directly from a data store that is not restricted, or by accessing insufficiently-protected, privileged functionality to read the data.

Technical Impact: Modify Application Data; Modify Files or Directories

An attacker could modify sensitive data, either by writing the data directly to a data store that is not restricted, or by accessing insufficiently-protected, privileged functionality to write the data.

Technical Impact: Gain Privileges or Assume Identity; Bypass Protection Mechanism

An attacker could gain privileges by modifying or reading critical data directly, or by accessing privileged functionality.

Technical Impact: DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart; DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU); DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory); DoS: Resource Consumption (Other)

An attacker could gain unauthorized access to resources on the system and excessively consume those resources, leading to a denial of service.

Red Hat would like to thank Vivek Parikh (BreachX Zero Day Labs) for reporting this issue.

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