Published: 16/09/2004 Updated: 11/07/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 215

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

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.

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todd miller sudo 1.6.8

/* Copyright © Rosiello Security 2004 wwwrosielloorg sudoedit Exploit SOFTWARE : sudoedit REFERENCE: wwwsudows/sudo/alerts/sudoedithtml DATE: 18/09/2004 Summary: A flaw in exists in sudo's -u option (aka sudoedit) in sudo version 168 that can give an attacker read permission to a fil ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txt http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.html http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/424358 http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-219.shtml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11204 http://www.osvdb.org/10023 http://secunia.com/advisories/12596 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109537972929201&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17424 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/470/

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