CVE-2021-23239

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-23239
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-01-12 09:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:30:00 UTC
DescriptionThe sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a local unprivileged user to perform arbitrary directory-existence tests by winning a sudo_edit.c race condition in replacing a user-controlled directory by a symlink to an arbitrary path.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Application Netapp Cloud Backup - All All All
Application Netapp Hci Management Node - All All All
Application Netapp Hci Management Node - All All All
Application Netapp Solidfire - All All All
Application Netapp Solidfire - All All All
Application Sudo Project Sudo All All All All
Application Sudo Project Sudo All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: sudo-1.9.5p1-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
January 2021 Sudo Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com Third Party Advisory
Sudo Stable Release CONFIRM www.sudo.ws Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: sudo-1.9.5p1-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: sudo-1.9.5p1-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Bug 1180684 – VUL-0: CVE-2021-23239: sudo: Possible Dir Existence Test due to Race Condition in `sudoedit` MISC bugzilla.suse.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
sudo: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202101-33) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: sudo-1.9.5p1-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3181-1] sudo security update MLIST lists.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159207 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for sudo (ELSA-2021-1723)
  • 180336 Debian Security Update for sudo (CVE-2021-23239)
  • 181196 Debian Security Update for sudo (DLA 3181-1)
  • 239316 Red Hat Update for sudo (RHSA-2021:1723)
  • 377324 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for sudo (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0113)
  • 500677 Alpine Linux Security Update for sudo
  • 670208 EulerOS Security Update for sudo (EulerOS-SA-2021-1707)
  • 671241 EulerOS Security Update for sudo (EulerOS-SA-2022-1191)
  • 690356 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for sudo (6193b3f6-548c-11eb-ba01-206a8a720317)
  • 900097 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for sudo 1.8.31p1
  • 903004 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for sudo (3733)
  • 940285 AlmaLinux Security Update for sudo (ALSA-2021:1723)
  • 960837 Rocky Linux Security Update for sudo (RLSA-2021:1723)
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