CVE-2021-23239
LOW2.5EPSS 0.09%sudo - security update
Published: 1/12/2021Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/sudofrom 0, < 1.9.5p2-r0
- Debian/sudofrom 0, < 1.9.5-1
- Debian/sudofrom 0, < 1.8.27-1+deb10u4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | LOW2.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |