Incorrect Default Permissions The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package sosreport  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-SOSREPORT-614483
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed27 Sept 2018

Introduced: 27 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-14650  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-276  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sosreport package and not the sosreport package as distributed by Ubuntu.

It was discovered that sos-collector does not properly set the default permissions of newly created files, making all files created by the tool readable by any local user. A local attacker may use this flaw by waiting for a legit user to run sos-collector and steal the collected data in the /var/tmp directory.