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CVE-2021-23239
The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a local unprivileged user to perform arbitrary directory-existence tests by…
Low2.5EPSS 1.0%
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- mitre
Description
The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a local unprivileged user to perform arbitrary directory-existence tests by winning a sudo_edit.c race condition in replacing a user-controlled directory by a symlink to an arbitrary path.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Low2.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 36% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2021-23239 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.9.5 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2021-324479472c (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2021-234d14bfcc (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- GLSA-202101-33 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0010/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20221107 [SECURITY] [DLA 3181-1] sudo security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_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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