CVE-2015-5602
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."
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 7.2 High
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2015-11-17
- Last modified
- 2024-08-06
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Affected products
References
- http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392
- http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/
