CVE-2011-0008
A certain Fedora patch for parse.c in sudo before 1.7.4p5-1.fc14 on Fedora 14 does not properly interpret a system group (aka %group) in the sudoers file during authorization decisions for a user who belongs to that group, which allows local users to…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.33%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A certain Fedora patch for parse.c in sudo before 1.7.4p5-1.fc14 on Fedora 14 does not properly interpret a system group (aka %group) in the sudoers file during authorization decisions for a user who belongs to that group, which allows local users to leverage an applicable sudoers file and gain root privileges via a sudo command. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-0034 regression.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.9 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 0.33% probability · 26th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- todd miller/sudo
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053263.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053341.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42968Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:018
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0195
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0199
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668843Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64965
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053263.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053341.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42968Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:018
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0195
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0199
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668843Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64965
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.