CVE-2005-2959

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in sudo 1.6.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) SHELLOPTS and (2) PS4 environment variables before executing a bash script on behalf of another user, which are not cleared even though other variables are.

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in sudo 1.6.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) SHELLOPTS and (2) PS4 environment variables before executing a bash script on behalf of another user, which are not cleared even though other variables are.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-10-25 16:02:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-03 21:31:00

Affected Software

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6

1.6

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.1

1.6.1

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.2

1.6.2

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.3

1.6.3

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.3 p7

1.6.3_p7

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.4

1.6.4

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.4p2

1.6.4p2

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.5

1.6.5

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.6

1.6.6

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.7

1.6.7

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.8

1.6.8

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