Published: 12/01/2021 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 1.9 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

CVSS v3 Base Score: 2.5 | Impact Score: 1.4 | Exploitability Score: 1

VMScore: 169

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

The sudoedit personality of Sudo prior to 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.

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A security issue was found in sudo before version 195 A race condition in sudoedit could have allowed an attacker to test for the existence of directories in arbitrary locations in the file system ...

CWE-59 https://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.9.5 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2021-23239 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-33 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0010/https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00007.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EE42Y35SMJOLONAIBNYNFC7J44UUZ2Y6/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GMY4VSSBIND7VAYSN6T7XIWJRWG4GBB3/https://nvd.nist.gov https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-23239

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