{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7529","details":"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.","modified":"2026-02-04T02:48:29.056867Z","published":"2015-12-11T00:00:00Z","related":["USN-2845-1"],"upstream":["CVE-2015-7529"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7529"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2845-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7529"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"sosreport","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/sosreport@3.1-1ubuntu2.2?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.1-1ubuntu2.2"}]}],"versions":["3.0-1","3.1-1","3.1-1ubuntu1","3.1-1ubuntu2","3.1-1ubuntu2.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"sosreport","binary_version":"3.1-1ubuntu2.2"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7529.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]}