Updated: 2026-02-08 04:36:18.561525
Description:
The 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.
| Links | NIST | CIRCL | RHEL | Ubuntu |
| Severity | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| CVSS Version 2.x | LOW | 1.9 |
| CVSS Version 3.x | LOW | 2.5 |
| OS name | Project name | Version | Score | Severity | Status | Errata | Last updated | Statement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU | sudo | 1.9.5p2 | 2.5 | LOW | Ignored | 2023-11-08 04:07:50 | This flaw is local-only and requires a high‑complexity race during sudoedit of a non‑existent fi... | |
| CentOS 6 ELS | sudo | 1.8.6p3 | 2.5 | LOW | Ignored | 2021-11-02 14:03:19 | Ignored due to low severity | |
| CentOS 7 ELS | sudo | 1.8.23 | 2.5 | LOW | Ignored | 2023-09-19 09:30:11 | Ignored due to low severity | |
| CentOS 8.4 ELS | sudo | 1.8.29-7 | 2.5 | LOW | Already Fixed | 2023-10-30 11:22:07 | ||
| CentOS 8.5 ELS | sudo | 1.8.29-7 | 2.5 | LOW | Already Fixed | 2023-10-30 11:22:07 | ||
| CloudLinux 6 ELS | sudo | 1.8.6p3 | 2.5 | LOW | Ignored | 2021-11-02 14:03:19 | Ignored due to low severity | |
| Debian 10 ELS | sudo | 1.8.27 | 2.5 | LOW | Ignored | 2025-10-11 00:18:54 | Ignored due to low severity | |
| Oracle Linux 6 ELS | sudo | 1.8.6p3 | 2.5 | LOW | Ignored | 2021-11-02 14:03:19 | Ignored due to low severity | |
| Ubuntu 16.04 ELS | sudo | 1.8.16 | 2.5 | LOW | Not Vulnerable | 2021-11-02 14:03:19 | ||
| Ubuntu 18.04 ELS | sudo | 1.8.21 | 2.5 | LOW | Already Fixed | 2023-06-02 09:09:51 |