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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2018-14650 json

It was discovered that sos-collector does not properly set the default permissions of newly created files, making all files created by the…

published 2018-09-27 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-6548

cvss
5.9
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • sos-collector RHEL 7 1.5-3.el7_6

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:3663

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-14650 updated cvss 5.9

sos-collector: incorrect permissions set on newly created files

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) sos-collector 1.5-3.el7_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) sos-collector 1.5-3.el7_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) sos-collector 1.5-3.el7_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) sos-collector 1.5-3.el7_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) sos-collector 1.5-3.el7_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:3663

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/sosreport/sos-collector/commit/72058f9253e7ed8c7243e2ff76a16d97b03d65ed referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.0 5.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • [UNKNOWN] sos-collector

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

References

Sources

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