CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2004-1689

Published: Sep 16, 2004 | Modified: Jul 11, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Sudo Todd_miller 1.6.8 1.6.8

References