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CVE-2021-23239
The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a...
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2021-23239
- https://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.9.5
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EE42Y35SMJOLONAIBNYNFC7J44UUZ2Y6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GMY4VSSBIND7VAYSN6T7XIWJRWG4GBB3/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-33
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0010/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00007.html
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Affected Vendor
sudo project
View all reports →Affected Software
sudo, cloud backup, hci management node, solidfire, fedora, debian linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.9.0, 32, 33, 10.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
January 12th, 2021
Last Modified:
August 3rd, 2024
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.