PT-2004-2595 · Sudo · Sudo

Reznic Valery · Published 2004-09-16 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2004-1689

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions sudo versions 1.6.8

Description The issue allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file opened by sudoedit with root privileges.

Recommendations For version 1.6.8, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as the current version allows for unauthorized file access through a symlink attack on the temporary file used by sudoedit.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-1689

Affected Products

Sudo

References · 14

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/11204 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/470 · Exploit
• http://osvdb.org/10023 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2004-1689 · Vendor Advisory
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/424358 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12596 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2004-1689 · Vendor Advisory
• http://sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-219.shtml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-1689 · Security Note
• http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txt · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2004-1689 · Vendor Advisory
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109537972929201&w=2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17424 · Note