CVE-2015-3171
MEDIUM5.5EPSS 0.04%sosreport sensitive information disclosure via weak permissions of the generated archives
Published: 5/13/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
sosreport 3.2 uses weak permissions for generated sosreport archives, which allows local users with access to /var/tmp/ to obtain sensitive information by reading the contents of the archive.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/sosreportfrom 0, < 3.2-2
- PyPI/sosreportfrom 0, < 3.3
- PyPI/sosreportfrom 0, < d7759d3ddae5fe99a340c88a1d370d65cfa73fd6 | >= 3.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3171
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3171
- PATCHhttps://github.com/sosreport/sos
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218658
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/sosreport/PYSEC-2017-72.yaml
- WEBhttps://github.com/sosreport/sos/commit/d7759d3ddae5fe99a340c88a1d370d65cfa73fd6
- WEBhttps://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/425