CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-23239

2.5 LOW Published 2021-01-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-01-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
2.5 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a local unprivileged user to perform arbitrary directory-existence tests by winning a sudo_edit.c race condition in replacing a user-controlled directory by a symlink to an arbitrary path.

Affected configurations

• sudo project sudo (< 1.8.32) • sudo project sudo (>= 1.9.0 < 1.9.5) • netapp cloud backup • netapp hci management node • netapp solidfire • fedoraproject fedora 32 • fedoraproject fedora 33 • debian debian linux 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References