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CVE-2018-14650
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v3.0)
- 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: yes
- Published: 2018-09-27 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-732
Description
It was discovered that sos-collector does not properly set the default permissions of newly created files, making all files created by the tool readable by any local user. A local attacker may use this flaw by waiting for a legit user to run sos-collector and steal the collected data in the /var/tmp directory.
Affected products
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
- Sos-Collector Project Sos-Collector: 1.4
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3663
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14650
- https://github.com/sosreport/sos-collector/commit/72058f9253e7ed8c7243e2ff76a16d97b03d65ed
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3663
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14650
- https://github.com/sosreport/sos-collector/commit/72058f9253e7ed8c7243e2ff76a16d97b03d65ed
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