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CVE-2015-5602

sudo: Unauthorized privilege escalation in sudoedit

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.8

CVSS 2.0

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Published · July 23, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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 score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 6.8
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:P

CWE-59 · Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')