Access Restriction Bypass Affecting sudo package, versions [,1.8.15)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.06% (29th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SUDO-2368618
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Nov 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-5602  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade sudo to version 1.8.15 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers, as demonstrated by "/home///file.txt."

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1