Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting sudo package, versions [,1.6.8]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.17% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SUDO-2368629
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Sept 2004
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Sep 2004

CVE-2004-1689  (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 sudoedit (aka sudo -e) in sudo 1.6.8 opens a temporary file with root privileges, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file before quitting sudoedit.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1