CVE-2025-12744

Abrt: command-injection in abrt leading to local privilege escalation

A flaw was found in the ABRT daemon’s handling of user-supplied mount information.ABRT copies up to 12 characters from an untrusted input and places them directly into a shell command (docker inspect %s) without proper validation. An unprivileged local user can craft a payload that injects shell metacharacters, causing the root-running ABRT process to execute attacker-controlled commands and ultimately gain full root privileges.

Affected

Red Hat · abrt · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

CVSS v3.1 PUITERWIJK

8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 49th percentile

Published

2025-12-03

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• edwin-rone/proyecto-SO0★ · 2026-05-26
• initstring/abrt_root7★ · 2025-12-03

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/52515

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2019-7304