Vulnerability in Todd Miller Sudo
CVE-2005-2959
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in sudo 1.6.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) SHELLOPTS and (2) PS4 environment variables before executing a bash script on behalf of another user, which are not cleared even though other variables are.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.006 (47.8th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 48th percentile — 47.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Todd Miller Sudo — versions 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi
- secunia.com/advisories/17666 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/18549 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html (vendor-advisory)
- docs.info.apple.com/article.html
- www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-870 (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/17322 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/17390 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)