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CVE-2015-7529
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2017-11-06 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-59
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.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 15.04, 15.10
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.6, 7.7
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 6.7, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6 (+1)
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.2, 7.3, 7.6, 7.7
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0
- Sos Project Sos: from 3.0 through 3.8
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0152.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0188.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83162
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2845-1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0152
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0188
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282542
- https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/696
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0152.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0188.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83162
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2845-1
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