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CVE-2005-2959

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Description

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.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/213-1/

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html

http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182

http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9643

http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2006.002-sudo.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_02_sr.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:201

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-870

http://secunia.com/advisories/24479

http://secunia.com/advisories/18549

http://secunia.com/advisories/17666

http://secunia.com/advisories/17390

http://secunia.com/advisories/17345

http://secunia.com/advisories/17322

http://secunia.com/advisories/17318

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-10-25

Updated: 2025-04-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00097

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