CVE-2004-1689
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
9.5%
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.
Affected configurations
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| todd_miller | sudo | 1.6.8 | cpe:/a:todd_miller:sudo:1.6.8::: |
References
marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109537972929201&w=2
packetstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txt
secunia.com/advisories/12596
www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-219.shtml
www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/424358
www.osvdb.org/10023
www.securityfocus.com/bid/11204
www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.html
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17424
Related
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
9.5%