5.6 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
A certain Red Hat script for sudo 1.7.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on
the /var/tmp/nsswitch.conf.bak temporary file.
Author | Note |
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tyhicks | This is a script specific to Red Hat’s sudo package |