CVE-2015-5602 (GCVE-0-2015-5602)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-17 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:50
VLAI?
Summary
sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers, as demonstrated by "/home/*/*/file.txt."
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