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CVE-2021-3156 (GCVE-0-2021-3156)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-26 00:00 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:35Summary
Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character.
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
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Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-193 - Off-by-one Error
Assigner
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CVE-2021-3156 (GCVE-0-2021-3156)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2021-01-26 00:00 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:35Summary
Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character.
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
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- n/a
- CWE-193 - Off-by-one Error
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