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."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/ exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Date Public
2015-07-28 00:00
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