CVE-2015-7529
high
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.8
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Red Hat Affected 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
| 6.0 | Affected | — |
Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 15.10 | Affected | — |
| 15.04 | Affected | — |
| 14.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| bullseye | Fixed | 3.2+git276-g7da50d6-3 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 3.2+git276-g7da50d6-3 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| sos_project | sos | {"startIncluding":"3.0","endIncluding":"3.8"} | |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7529
- https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/696
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0152
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0188
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7529
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282542
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/sosreport/PYSEC-2017-73.yaml
- https://github.com/sosreport/sos
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160416033632/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83162
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0152.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0188.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2845-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83162
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7529
CWEs
CWE-59
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.