gsd-2021-23239
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:23
Details
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.
Aliases
Aliases
CVE-2021-23239


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