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CVE-2015-7529
sosreport in SoS 3.x allows local users to obtain sensitive information from sosreport files or gain privileges via a symlink attack on an…
High7.8EPSS 0.44%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.44% · top 61% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIsosreportGHSA-3g56-2hh3-35ph (opens in a new tab)
References (8)
- USN-2845-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/696 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0152 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0188 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 83162 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0188 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282542 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0152 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-3g56-2hh3-35ph (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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