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    CVE-2015-5602

    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."

    Published:Jul 23, 2015
    Last Modified:Apr 12, 2025
    EPS:Nov 17, 2015
    EPSS Score:0.06102
    CVSS Score:7.2

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Sudo Project
    Product
    Sudo

    Exploits

    http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710https://github.com/cved-sources/cve-2015-5602https://github.com/t0kx/privesc-CVE-2015-5602

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2026-82474 (CVSS 8.5) — Sudo through 1.9.17p2 fails to apply intercept policy checks to the execveat system call in ptrace-based inter…
    CVE-2026-35535 (CVSS 7.4) — In Sudo through 1.9.17p2 before 3e474c2, a failure of a setuid, setgid, or setgroups call, during a privilege …
    CVE-2025-32463 (CVSS 9.3) — Sudo before 1.9.17p1 allows local users to obtain root access because /etc/nsswitch.conf from a user-controlle…
    CVE-2025-32462 (CVSS 2.8) — Sudo before 1.9.17p1, when used with a sudoers file that specifies a host that is neither the current host nor…
    CVE-2023-42465 (CVSS 7) — Sudo before 1.9.15 might allow row hammer attacks (for authentication bypass or privilege escalation) because …
    CVE-2023-28487 (CVSS 5.3) — Sudo before 1.9.13 does not escape control characters in sudoreplay output.…
    CVE-2023-28486 (CVSS 5.3) — Sudo before 1.9.13 does not escape control characters in log messages.…
    CVE-2023-27320 (CVSS 7.2) — Sudo before 1.9.13p2 has a double free in the per-command chroot feature.…
    CVE-2023-22809 (CVSS 7.8) — In Sudo before 1.9.12p2, the sudoedit (aka -e) feature mishandles extra arguments passed in the user-provided …
    CVE-2022-43995 (CVSS 7.1) — Sudo 1.8.0 through 1.9.12, with the crypt() password backend, contains a plugins/sudoers/auth/passwd.c array-o…

    References

    http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html
    http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392
    http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13
    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/
    http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html
    http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392
    http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13
    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High