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CVE-2010-0426

Date: February 24, 2010

sudo 1.6.x before 1.6.9p21 and 1.7.x before 1.7.2p4, when a pseudo-command is enabled, permits a match between the name of the pseudo-command and the name of an executable file in an arbitrary directory, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted executable file, as demonstrated by a file named sudoedit in a user's home directory.

Severity Score

7.4

Related Resources (33)

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/38659

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0450

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/38915

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/38795

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2010-0426

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38362

Url: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-security-4/the-use-of-sudoedit-command-question-785442/

Url: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201003-01.xml

Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570737

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7238

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0426

Url: ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/sudo/sudo-1.6.9p21.patch.gz

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/040588.html

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10814

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2006

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/38803

Url: http://sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=389

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:049

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/38762

Url: http://sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/88f3181692fe

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/39399

Url: http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/stable.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-905-1

Url: http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0075

Url: http://sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/f86e1b56d074

Url: http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.577019

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0949

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0426

Url: http://securitytracker.com/id?1023658

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/040578.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514489/100/0/threaded

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2010-0426

Severity Score

7.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2010-0426

Date: February 24, 2010

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