Access Restriction Bypass Affecting sudo package, versions [,1.7.4p6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SUDO-2368615
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Jan 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Jan 2011

CVE-2011-0008  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade sudo to version 1.7.4p6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. A certain Fedora patch for parse.c in sudo before 1.7.4p5-1.fc14 on Fedora 14 does not properly interpret a system group (aka %group) in the sudoers file during authorization decisions for a user who belongs to that group, which allows local users to leverage an applicable sudoers file and gain root privileges via a sudo command. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-0034 regression.

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