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CVE-2015-5602

critical

Description

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."

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html

http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-11-17

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 10

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.07436