Description
A time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition was found in the abrt-dbus D-Bus service's SetElement method. Between dump directory creation and post-create event execution, any local user can call SetElement to write arbitrary text files into the root-owned dump directory, bypassing package validation and allowing crashes of unpackaged binaries to survive post-create processing.
Problem types
Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Product status
Timeline
| 2026-06-12: | Reported to Red Hat. |
| 2026-05-04: | Made public. |
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Red Team (Deutsche Telekom Security GmbH) for reporting this issue.
References
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-54228
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488531 (RHBZ#2488531)