CVE-2004-1689

2005-02-2005:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

AI Score

6.2

Confidence

Low

EPSS

Percentile

0.3%

JSON

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.

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