PT-2017-6640 · Red Hat · Sosreport

Grant Murphy · Published 2017-07-25 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2015-3171

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions sosreport version 3.2

Description The issue allows local users with access to /var/tmp/ to obtain sensitive information by reading the contents of the archive due to weak permissions for generated sosreport archives.

Recommendations For sosreport version 3.2, consider restricting access to the /var/tmp/ directory to minimize the risk of exploitation until a fix is available.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-3171

GHSA-GW46-8559-CGGP

PYSEC-2017-72

Affected Products

Sosreport

References · 14

• https://github.com/sosreport/sos/commit/d7759d3ddae5fe99a340c88a1d370d65cfa73fd6 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-3171 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3171 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3171 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218658 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-gw46-8559-cggp · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3171 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3171 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3171 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3171 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2017-72 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/425 · Note
• https://github.com/sosreport/sos · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/sosreport/PYSEC-2017-72.yaml · Note