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CVE-2015-3171

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

sosreport 3.2 uses weak permissions for generated sosreport archives, which allows local users with access to /var/tmp/ to obtain sensitive information by reading the contents of the archive.

Affected products

• Sos Project Sos: 3.2

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218658
• https://github.com/sosreport/sos/commit/d7759d3ddae5fe99a340c88a1d370d65cfa73fd6
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218658
• https://github.com/sosreport/sos/commit/d7759d3ddae5fe99a340c88a1d370d65cfa73fd6

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