CVE-2015-7529 describes a local privilege escalation and information disclosure vulnerability in the sosreport utility, affecting SoS 3.x in products from Canonical, Red Hat, and the sos_project. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) allows a local attacker to exploit a symlink attack on temporary archive files, such as sosreport-$hostname-$date.tar in /tmp, to gain privileges or access sensitive data. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 3.0, <= 3.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sos_project:sos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
15.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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