CVE-2015-7529
high
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS v2
4.6
VIR risk
7.8
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7529
Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/696
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| rhel | 6.0 | affected | |
| rhel | 7.0 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 14.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 15.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 15.10 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 3.2+git276-g7da50d6-3 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 3.2+git276-g7da50d6-3 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| sos_project | sos | {"startIncluding":"3.0","endIncluding":"3.8"} | |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7529
- https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/696
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0152
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0188
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7529
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282542
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/sosreport/PYSEC-2017-73.yaml
- https://github.com/sosreport/sos
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160416033632/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83162
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0152.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0188.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2845-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83162
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7529
CWEs
CWE-59
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.