Link Following Affecting sudo package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.09% (39th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-SUDO-1058994
- published 12 Jan 2021
- disclosed 12 Jan 2021
Introduced: 12 Jan 2021
CVE-2021-23239 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:9
sudo
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sudo
package and not the sudo
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a local unprivileged user to perform arbitrary directory-existence tests by winning a sudo_edit.c race condition in replacing a user-controlled directory by a symlink to an arbitrary path.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-23239
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0010/
- https://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.9.5
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EE42Y35SMJOLONAIBNYNFC7J44UUZ2Y6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GMY4VSSBIND7VAYSN6T7XIWJRWG4GBB3/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-33
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2021-23239
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00007.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EE42Y35SMJOLONAIBNYNFC7J44UUZ2Y6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GMY4VSSBIND7VAYSN6T7XIWJRWG4GBB3/