Access Restriction Bypass Affecting sudo package, versions [1.6.3_p1,1.6.8]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SUDO-2368616
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Oct 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Oct 2005

CVE-2005-2959  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for sudo.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in sudo 1.6.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) SHELLOPTS and (2) PS4 environment variables before executing a bash script on behalf of another user, which are not cleared even though other variables are.

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