CVE-2015-7529

moderate-risk
Published 2017-11-06

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.06% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.8/10 High
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (20)

Sos

Affected Vendors

Canonical Redhat Sos Project

References (16)

Third Party Advisory http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0152.html
Third Party Advisory http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0188.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83162
Issue Tracking http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2845-1
Issue Tracking https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0152
Issue Tracking https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0188
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282542
Issue Tracking https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/696
Third Party Advisory http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0152.html
Third Party Advisory http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0188.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83162
Issue Tracking http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2845-1
Issue Tracking https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0152
Issue Tracking https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0188
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282542
Issue Tracking https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/696
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moderate-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 21/34 · High