Important: sudo

Issue Overview: When sudo runs a command in shell mode, either via the -s or -i command line option, it escapes special characters in the command's arguments with a backslash. The sudoers policy plugin will then remove the escape characters from the arguments before evaluating the sudoers policy...

sudo -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Todd C. Miller reports: When invoked as sudoedit, the same set of command line options are now accepted as for sudo -e. The -H and -P options are now rejected for sudoedit and sudo -e which matches the sudo 1.7 behavior. This is part of the fix for CVE-2021-3156. Fixed a potential buffer overflow...

Privilege escalation

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the command line interface in McAfee Advanced Threat Defense ATD 4.x prior to 4.8.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via improper access controls on the sudo command...

CVE-2020-7254

McAfee Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) Privilege Escalation (CVE-2020-7254) affects ATD 4.x prior to 4.8.2. The root cause is improper access controls on sudo commands in the command line interface, enabling local users to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code. Exploitation is local and re...

CVE-2018-20052

An issue was discovered on Cerner Connectivity Engine CCE 4 devices. The user running the main CCE firmware has NOPASSWD sudo privileges to several utilities that could be used to escalate privileges to root. One example is the "sudo ln -s /tmp/script /etc/cron.hourly/script" command...

Sudohulk - Try Privilege Escalation Changing Sudo Command

This tool change sudo command, hooking the execve syscall using ptrace, tested under bash and zsh supported architectures: x8664 x86 arm How use: $ make cc -Wall -Wextra -O2 -c -o bin/shremotedata.o src/shremotedata.c cc -Wall -Wextra -O2 -c -o bin/shstring.o src/shstring.c cc -Wall -Wextra -O2 -...

The vulnerability of the vi command-line editor for system data storage, Backup Manager, allows a hacker to obtain root privileges.

The vulnerability of the vi script service for the system data storage, Backup Manager, is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to obtain root privileges and compromise the integrity of the critical /etc/passwd file by executing a speci...

Privilege escalation

Privilege escalation in Replibit Backup Manager earlier than version 2017.08.04 allows attackers to gain root privileges via sudo command execution. The vi program can be accessed through sudo, in order to navigate the filesystem and modify a critical file such as /etc/passwd...

CVE-2017-13707

Privilege escalation in Replibit Backup Manager earlier than version 2017.08.04 allows attackers to gain root privileges via sudo command execution. The vi program can be accessed through sudo, in order to navigate the filesystem and modify a critical file such as /etc/passwd...

PonyOS 4.0 fluttershy LD_LIBRARY_PATH Privilege Escalation

!/usr/bin/python PonyOS 4.0 has added several improvements over previous releases including support for setuid binaries and dynamic libraries. The run-time linker does not sanitize environment variables when running setuid files allowing for local root exploitation through manipulated...

CVE-2016-0905

Avamar Data Store ADS and Avamar Virtual Edition AVE in EMC Avamar Server before 7.3.0-233 allow local users to obtain root privileges by leveraging admin access and entering a sudo command...

Command injection

Avamar Data Store ADS and Avamar Virtual Edition AVE in EMC Avamar Server before 7.3.0-233 allow local users to obtain root privileges by leveraging admin access and entering a sudo command...

CVE-2016-0905

CVE-2016-0905 affects EMC Avamar Server components Avamar Data Store (ADS) and Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) prior to version 7.3.0-233. The issue allows a local attacker with admin access to obtain root privileges by entering a sudo command; remediation is to upgrade to 7.3.0-233 or later. The co...

CVE-2016-0905

Avamar Data Store ADS and Avamar Virtual Edition AVE in EMC Avamar Server before 7.3.0-233 allow local users to obtain root privileges by leveraging admin access and entering a sudo command...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: sudo-1.8.17p1-1.fc23

Sudo superuser do allows a system administrator to give certain users or groups of users the ability to run some or all commands as root while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a per-command basis. It is not a replacement for the shell. Features include: the ability to restrict...

CVE-2011-0010

check.c in sudo 1.7.x before 1.7.4p5, when a Runas group is configured, does not require a password for command execution that involves a gid change but no uid change, which allows local users to bypass an intended authentication requirement via the -g option to a sudo command...

CVE-2010-1163

The command matching functionality in sudo 1.6.8 through 1.7.2p5 does not properly handle when a file in the current working directory has the same name as a pseudo-command in the sudoers file and the PATH contains an entry for ".", which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a...

CVE-2010-1163

The command matching functionality in sudo 1.6.8 through 1.7.2p5 does not properly handle when a file in the current working directory has the same name as a pseudo-command in the sudoers file and the PATH contains an entry for ".", which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a...

CVE-2010-1163

The command matching functionality in sudo 1.6.8 through 1.7.2p5 does not properly handle when a file in the current working directory has the same name as a pseudo-command in the sudoers file and the PATH contains an entry for ".", which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a...

Mandriva Update for sudo MDVSA-2010:052 (sudo)

Check for the Version of sudo OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for sudo MDVSA-2010:052 sudo Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...