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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-23239

DEBIAN-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.

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

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13sudo0, 0, 0
Debian:14sudo0, 0, 0
Debian:11sudo0, 0, 0
Debian:12sudo0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Jan 12, 2021 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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