CVE-2015-5602
HIGH 7.2EPSS 1.5%
sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers, as demonstrated by "/home/*/*/file.txt."
- CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C - EPSS
- 1.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 74th percentile
- Published
- 2015-11-17
- Updated
- 2024-08-06
Proof-of-concept exploits (2)
- cved-sources/cve-2015-56020★ · 2021-04-15
- t0kx/privesc-CVE-2015-560215★ · 2017-12-16
ExploitDB entries (1)
Security advisories
- http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13
- http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html