CVE-2021-23239

Description

The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 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.

Risk Information

Base Score
2.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.153

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
SUSE-SU-2021:0225-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) sudo-1.8.27-4.6.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:0225-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) sudo-debuginfo-1.8.27-4.6.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2021:0225-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) sudo-debugsource-1.8.27-4.6.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
Provide limited super user privileges to specific users (USN-4705-1) sudo_1.9.1-1ubuntu1.1_i386.debLinux
Provide limited super user privileges to specific users (USN-4705-1) sudo_1.9.1-1ubuntu1.1_amd64.debLinux
Provide limited super user privileges to specific users (USN-4705-1) sudo_1.8.31-1ubuntu1.2_i386.debLinux
Provide limited super user privileges to specific users (USN-4705-1) sudo_1.8.31-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.debLinux
Provide limited super user privileges to specific users (USN-4705-1) sudo_1.8.16-0ubuntu1.10_i386.debLinux
Provide limited super user privileges to specific users (USN-4705-1) sudo_1.8.16-0ubuntu1.10_amd64.debLinux
Provide limited super user privileges to specific users (USN-4705-1) sudo_1.8.21p2-3ubuntu1.4_i386.debLinux
Provide limited super user privileges to specific users (USN-4705-1) sudo_1.8.21p2-3ubuntu1.4_amd64.debLinux
Provide limited super user privileges to specific users (USN-4705-1) sudo-ldap_1.9.1-1ubuntu1.1_i386.debLinux
Provide limited super user privileges to specific users (USN-4705-1) sudo-ldap_1.9.1-1ubuntu1.1_amd64.debLinux
Provide limited super user privileges to specific users (USN-4705-1) sudo-ldap_1.8.31-1ubuntu1.2_i386.debLinux
Provide limited super user privileges to specific users (USN-4705-1) sudo-ldap_1.8.31-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.debLinux
Provide limited super user privileges to specific users (USN-4705-1) sudo-ldap_1.8.16-0ubuntu1.10_i386.debLinux
Provide limited super user privileges to specific users (USN-4705-1) sudo-ldap_1.8.16-0ubuntu1.10_amd64.debLinux
Provide limited super user privileges to specific users (USN-4705-1) sudo-ldap_1.8.21p2-3ubuntu1.4_i386.debLinux
Provide limited super user privileges to specific users (USN-4705-1) sudo-ldap_1.8.21p2-3ubuntu1.4_amd64.debLinux
(RHSA-2021:1723) sudo security and bug fix update sudo-1.8.29-7.el8.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2021:1723) sudo security and bug fix update sudo-debugsource-1.8.29-7.el8.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234