CVE-2015-5602

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-07-23
CWE:
CWE-59
Bugzilla:
1277426: CVE-2015-5602 sudo: Unauthorized privilege escalation in sudoedit

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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."

Find out more about CVE-2015-5602 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 sudo Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 sudo Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 sudo Will not fix

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