CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-1689

2.1 LOW Published 2004-09-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-09-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• todd miller sudo 1.6.8

References