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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- high
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- low
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- SUDO_PROJECT
- Published
- 1/12/2021
- Last Modified
- 11/21/2024
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
sudo_project : sudosudo_project : sudonetapp : cloud_backupnetapp : hci_management_nodenetapp : solidfirefedoraproject : fedorafedoraproject : fedoradebian : debian_linux
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