CVE-2005-4890
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.14%Published: 11/4/2019Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
There is a possible tty hijacking in shadow 4.x before 4.1.5 and sudo 1.x before 1.7.4 via "su - user -c program". The user session can be escaped to the parent session by using the TIOCSTI ioctl to push characters into the input buffer to be read by the next process.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/shadowfrom 0, < 1:4.1.5-1
- Debian/sudofrom 0, < 1.7.4p4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |