Information Exposure Affecting sudo package, versions [,1.8.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SUDO-2368606
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Apr 2017

CVE-2014-9680  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade sudo to version 1.8.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure sudo before 1.8.12 does not ensure that the TZ environment variable is associated with a zoneinfo file, which allows local users to open arbitrary files for read access (but not view file contents) by running a program within an sudo session, as demonstrated by interfering with terminal output, discarding kernel-log messages, or repositioning tape drives.

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