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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2015-3171

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

sosreport 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.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published