CVE-2015-7529

Publication date 11 December 2015

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
sosreport	15.10 wily	Fixed 3.2-2ubuntu1.1
	15.04 vivid	Fixed 3.2-2ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 3.1-1ubuntu2.2
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
sosreport	Upstream: 4a9b919 Upstream: 19e2bbc Upstream: 7f27277 Upstream: 6038fdf Upstream: 08121d8

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2845-1
SoS vulnerabilities
18 December 2015

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7529