cve-2004-1689
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2005-02-20 05:00
Modified
2024-08-08 01:00
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
sudoedit (aka sudo -e) in sudo 1.6.8 opens a temporary file with root privileges, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file before quitting sudoedit.
References
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