Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting sudo package, versions [,1.5]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SUDO-2368605
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Jun 1999
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Jun 1999

CVE-1999-1496  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for sudo.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. Sudo 1.5 in Debian Linux 2.1 and Red Hat 6.0 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files by attempting to execute the target filename as a program, which generates a different error message when the file does not exist.

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