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CVE-2010-2956

Date: September 10, 2010

Sudo 1.7.0 through 1.7.4p3, when a Runas group is configured, does not properly handle use of the -u option in conjunction with the -g option, which allows local users to gain privileges via a command line containing a "-u root" sequence.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.4

Related Resources (26)

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2312

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:175

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2318

Url: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0001.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43019

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2358

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2956

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024392

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628628

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0675.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/40508

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201009-03.xml

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2320

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/047516.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-983-1

Url: http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/runas_group.html

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

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515545/100/0/threaded

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2010-2956

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/42787

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/41316

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2956

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0025

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

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2010-2956

Severity Score

7.4

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:	6.2
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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Date: September 10, 2010

Language: C

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