Redhat.comRH:CVE-2021-23240CVE-2021-23240
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
40.7%
A race condition vulnerability was found in the temporary file handling of sudoedit’s SELinux RBAC support. On systems where SELinux is enabled, this flaw allows a malicious user with sudoedit permissions to set the owner of an arbitrary file to the user ID of the target user, potentially leading to local privilege escalation. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.
Mitigation
- Enable SELinux in enforcing mode.
- Enable the symbolic link protection (/proc/sys/fs/protected_symlinks set to 1).
- Remove the
seshbinary (/usr/libexec/sudo/sesh or /usr/lib/sudo/sesh) if SELinux RBAC support is not needed.
Related
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
40.7%