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CVE-2021-23239

low

Description

The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a local unprivileged user to perform arbitrary directory-existence tests by winning a sudo_edit.c race condition in replacing a user-controlled directory by a symlink to an arbitrary path.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0010/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-33

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GMY4VSSBIND7VAYSN6T7XIWJRWG4GBB3/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EE42Y35SMJOLONAIBNYNFC7J44UUZ2Y6/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00007.html

https://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.9.5

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2021-23239

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-01-12

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.9

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 2.5

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

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0004