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CVE-2015-5602

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."

Published

2015-11-17T15:59:10.187

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.2 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

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

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-264

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	sudo_project	sudo	≤ 1.8.14	Yes

References

http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707 Exploit, Issue Tracking ([email protected])
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440 ([email protected])
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392 ([email protected])
http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707 Exploit, Issue Tracking (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)