Vulnerability Monitor

The vendors, products, and vulnerabilities you care about

CVE-2004-1689

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.

Published

2004-09-16T04:00:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 2.1 (LOW)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	todd_miller	sudo	1.6.8	Yes

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109537972929201&w=2 ([email protected])
http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/12596 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-219.shtml Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/424358 Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource ([email protected])
http://www.osvdb.org/10023 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11204 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.html Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17424 ([email protected])
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109537972929201&w=2 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/12596 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-219.shtml Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/424358 Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.osvdb.org/10023 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11204 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.html Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17424 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)