CVE-2004-1689

SudoEdit 1.6.8 - Local Change Permission

Severity Score

2.1

*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

sudoedit (aka sudo -e) in sudo 1.6.8 opens a temporary file with root privileges, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file before quitting sudoedit.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

NISTv2 2.1

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

None

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2004-09-16 CVE Published
2004-09-21 First Exploit
2005-02-21 CVE Reserved
2024-08-08 CVE Updated
2024-08-28 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CAPEC

References (10)

URL	Tag	Source
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109537972929201&w=2	Mailing List
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17424	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/470	2004-09-21
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11204	2024-08-08

URL	Date	SRC
http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txt	2017-07-11
http://secunia.com/advisories/12596	2017-07-11
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-219.shtml	2017-07-11
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/424358	2017-07-11
http://www.osvdb.org/10023	2017-07-11
http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.html	2017-07-11

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Todd Miller Search vendor "Todd Miller"		Sudo Search vendor "Todd Miller" for product "Sudo"				1.6.8 Search vendor "Todd Miller" for product "Sudo" and version "1.6.8"		-		Affected