CVE-2015-7529 (GCVE-0-2015-7529)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-06 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:51
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 81/100 over 995 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2015-11-16 00:00
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