CVE-2010-0426

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    CVE-2010-0426

    Published: 24 Feb 2010Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: sudo 1.6.x before 1.6.9p21 and 1.7.x before 1.7.2p4, when a pseudo-command is enabled, permits a match between the name of the pseudo-command and the name of an executable file in an arbitrary directory, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted executable file, as demonstrated by a file named sudoedit in a user's home directory.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/38659, http://secunia.com/advisories/38762, http://secunia.com/advisories/38795, http://secunia.com/advisories/38803, http://secunia.com/advisories/38915, http://secunia.com/advisories/39399, http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2006, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:049, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-905-1, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0450, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0949, ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/sudo/sudo-1.6.9p21.patch.gz, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38362, http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/stable.html, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570737, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/040578.html, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/040588.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html, http://securitytracker.com/id?1023658, http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.577019, http://sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=389, http://sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/88f3181692fe, http://sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/f86e1b56d074, http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0075, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201003-01.xml, http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-security-4/the-use-of-sudoedit-command-question-785442/, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514489/100/0/threaded, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10814, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7238

    Affected packages

    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