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CVE-2005-4158

Sudo before 1.6.8 p12, when the Perl taint flag is off, does not clear the (1) PERLLIB, (2) PERL5LIB, and (3) PERL5OPT environment variables, which allows limited local users to cause a Perl script to include and execute arbitrary library files that have the same name as library files that are included by the script.

Published

2005-12-11T02:03:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 4.6 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

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

3.9

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    NVD-CWE-Other
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application todd_miller sudo 1.5.6 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.5.7 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.5.8 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.5.9 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.1 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.2 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.3 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.3_p1 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.3_p2 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.3_p3 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.3_p4 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.3_p5 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.3_p6 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.3_p7 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.4 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.4_p1 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.4_p2 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.5 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.5_p1 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.5_p2 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.6 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.7 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.7_p5 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.8 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.8_p1 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.8_p5 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.8_p7 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.8_p8 Yes
Application todd_miller sudo 1.6.8_p9 Yes
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