CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-3149

7.2 HIGH Published 2007-06-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-06-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

sudo, when linked with MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5), does not properly check whether a user can currently authenticate to Kerberos, which allows local users to gain privileges, in a manner unintended by the sudo security model, via certain KRB5_ environment variable settings. NOTE: another researcher disputes this vulnerability, stating that the attacker must be "a user, who can already log into your system, and can already use sudo."

Affected configurations

• mit kerberos 5 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8 p12

References