VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2015-7529

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.44%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-11-06
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Primary references