CVE-2004-1689

Description

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

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17424

http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.html

http://www.osvdb.org/10023

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/424358

http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-219.shtml

http://secunia.com/advisories/12596

http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txt

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109537972929201&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS