CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-5602
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-11-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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."
Affected configurations
• sudo project sudo (<= 1.8.14)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440 www.debian.org
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440 www.debian.org
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory