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CVE-2015-5602

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Date: November 17, 2015

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."

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Related Resources (13)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5602
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5602
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5602
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440
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.securitytracker.com/id/1034392
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/
http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-5602

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

CVSS v3.1

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

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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