VDB
CVE-2021-23239
CVE-2021-23239
PUBLISHED
CVSS 2.5 LOW
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.
EPSS 1.04% · 64.0th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.1
2.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
1.04%
64.0th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS | sudo | 1.8.9p5-1ubuntu1.5+esm7, 1.8.9p5-1ubuntu1.4, 0 |
| Ubuntu:20.04:LTS | sudo | 1.8.31-1ubuntu1.1, 0, 1.8.27-1ubuntu4 |
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | sudo | 1.8.21p2-3ubuntu1.2, 1.8.21p2-3ubuntu1, 1.8.21p2-2ubuntu1 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | sudo | 0, 1.8.16-0ubuntu1.1, 1.8.16-0ubuntu1.2 |
Timeline
- Jan 12, 2021 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 28, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 9, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 11, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 8, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 13, 2022 EPSS Score
References
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/11/2 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23239 third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-23239 advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4705-1 advisory