CVE-2015-5602 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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."

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.06102.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Sudo Project	Sudo

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:sudo_project:sudo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-382-1	sudo security update
Debian DSA	DSA-3440-1	sudo security update
EUVD	EUVD-2015-5556	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."

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392
http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5602
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5602
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-11-17T15:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:50:03.159Z

Reserved: 2015-07-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-5602

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2015-11-17T15:59:10.187

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2015-5602

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-07-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-5602 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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