Link Following Affecting sudo-devel package, versions <1.8.22-4.15.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.07% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-SUDODEVEL-2690394
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed26 Jan 2021

Introduced: 26 Jan 2021

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 sudo-devel to version 1.8.22-4.15.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sudo-devel package and not the sudo-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 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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