CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2959

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2005-10-25 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-10-25
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• todd miller sudo 1.6 • todd miller sudo 1.6.1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p3 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p4 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p5 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p6 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p7 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3p3 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3p4 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3p5 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3p6 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3p7 • todd miller sudo 1.6.4 • todd miller sudo 1.6.4 p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.4 p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.4p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.4p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.5 • todd miller sudo 1.6.5 p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.5 p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.5p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.5p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.6 • todd miller sudo 1.6.7 • todd miller sudo 1.6.7 p5 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-184 Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs weakness

References