CVE-2015-7529

high

Description

sosreport in SoS 3.x allows local users to obtain sensitive information from sosreport files or gain privileges via a symlink attack on an archive file in a temporary directory, as demonstrated by sosreport-$hostname-$date.tar in /tmp/sosreport-$hostname-$date.

References

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/696

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282542

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0188

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0152

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2845-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83162

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0188.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0152.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-11-06

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: High