CVE-2025-12744 HIGH

CVE-2025-12744: Abrt: command-injection in abrt leading to local privilege escalation

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Weakness CWE-78
Published December 3, 2025
Last update December 3, 2025

CVSS base score

8.8/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 3, 2025 CVE published
December 3, 2025 Record updated