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CVE-2021-23239

CVE-2021-23239 PUBLISHED

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 0.09% · 26.1th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.09%
26.1th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTSsudo1.8.9p4-1ubuntu2, 1.8.9p4-1ubuntu1, 1.8.8-2ubuntu1
Ubuntu:20.04:LTSsudo1.8.31-1ubuntu1.1, 0, 1.8.27-1ubuntu4
Ubuntu:18.04:LTSsudo*, 0, *
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSsudo0, 1.8.16-0ubuntu1.1, 1.8.16-0ubuntu1.2

Timeline

  • Jan 12, 2021 CVE Published
  • Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Jun 22, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Oct 25, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Feb 27, 2022 EPSS Score
  • May 1, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Jul 2, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Nov 5, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Nov 8, 2022 EPSS Score
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