Link Following Affecting sudo package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-SUDO-1058994
  • published12 Jan 2021
  • disclosed12 Jan 2021

Introduced: 12 Jan 2021

CVE-2021-23239  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:9 sudo.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sudo package and not the sudo package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Scores

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