A certain Fedora patch for parse.c in sudo before 1.7.4p5-1.fc14 on Fedora 14 does not properly interpret a system group (aka %group) in…

Description

A certain Fedora patch for parse.c in sudo before 1.7.4p5-1.fc14 on Fedora 14 does not properly interpret a system group (aka %group) in the sudoers file during authorization decisions for a user who belongs to that group, which allows local users to leverage an applicable sudoers file and gain root privileges via a sudo command. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-0034 regression.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.33% · top 73% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• MDVSA-2011:018 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2011-0470 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• ADV-2011-0199 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668843 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• sudo-parse-privilege-escalation(64965) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• FEDORA-2011-0455 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• ADV-2011-0195 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 42968 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2011-0008](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2011-0008.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2011-0008)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 21:36 UTC.