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high 7.8

CVE-2015-7529 json

SoSReport Predictable Tmp File Names

published 2017-11-06 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-3g56-2hh3-35ph , PYSEC-2017-73 , EUVD-2017-0131

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi sosreport 3.3
  • sosreport Debian 12 3.2+git276-g7da50d6-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7529

  • sosreport Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.1-1ubuntu2.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7529

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • sos RHEL 6 3.2-28.el6_7.2
  • sos RHEL 7 3.2-35.el7_2.3

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:0152RHSA-2016:0188

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-7529 updated cvss 6.0

sos: Usage of predictable temporary files allows privilege escalation

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 sos Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) sos
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) sos 3.2-35.el7_2.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) sos 3.2-35.el7_2.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0188
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) sos 3.2-28.el6_7.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) sos 3.2-28.el6_7.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) sos 3.2-28.el6_7.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0152
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) sos 3.2-35.el7_2.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0188
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) sos 3.2-28.el6_7.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0152
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) sos 3.2-35.el7_2.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0188
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) sos
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi sosreport
>=3.0, <3.3
>=3.0
3.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

Sources

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