CVE-2015-5602
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.2
Description
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."
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.8.15-1.1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.8.15-1.1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.8.15-1.1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.8.15-1.1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.8.15-1.1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| sudo_project | sudo | {"endIncluding":"1.8.14"} | |
References
- 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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5602
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.