Upstream information
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.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products
This issue is currently rated as having important severity.
| CVSS detail | National Vulnerability Database | 
|---|---|
| Base Score | 4.6 | 
| Vector | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P | 
| Access Vector | Local | 
| Access Complexity | Low | 
| Authentication | None | 
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial | 
| Integrity Impact | Partial | 
| Availability Impact | Partial | 
| CVSS detail | National Vulnerability Database | 
|---|---|
| Base Score | 7.8 | 
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | 
| Attack Vector | Local | 
| Attack Complexity | Low | 
| Privileges Required | Low | 
| User Interaction | None | 
| Scope | Unchanged | 
| Confidentiality Impact | High | 
| Integrity Impact | High | 
| Availability Impact | High | 
| CVSSv3 Version | 3.1 | 
List of released packages
| Product(s) | Fixed package version(s) | References | 
|---|---|---|
| SUSE Liberty Linux 7 | 
  |  Patchnames:  RHSA-2016:0188  | 
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Tue Dec 1 08:16:13 2015CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:23:28 2025