sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using…

Description

sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers, as demonstrated by "/home/*/*/file.txt."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1034392 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• DSA-3440 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• GLSA-201606-13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• FEDORA-2015-386863df8a (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 37710 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• FEDORA-2015-6a267387c0 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_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)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 06:50 UTC.