CVE-2011-0008

high

Description

A certain Fedora patch for parse.c in sudo before 1.7.4p5-1.fc14 on Fedora 14 does not properly interpret a system group (aka %group) in the sudoers file during authorization decisions for a user who belongs to that group, which allows local users to leverage an applicable sudoers file and gain root privileges via a sudo command. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-0034 regression.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64965

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668843

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0199

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0195

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:018

http://secunia.com/advisories/42968

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053341.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053263.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-01-20

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High