CVE-2018-14650

Publication date 27 September 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
sosreport	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

sos-collector isn't in the sosreport package, it's a different tool.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.0 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N