CVE-2021-23239
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-01-12 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 19:05
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
0.04% (0.09031)
Summary
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
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2021-23239Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EE42Y35SMJOLONAIBNYNFC7J44UUZ2Y6/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GMY4VSSBIND7VAYSN6T7XIWJRWG4GBB3/
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-33Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0010/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.9.5Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2021-23239Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EE42Y35SMJOLONAIBNYNFC7J44UUZ2Y6/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GMY4VSSBIND7VAYSN6T7XIWJRWG4GBB3/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-33Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0010/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.9.5Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
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