CVE-2015-5602
EPSS 5.5%sudo - security update
Published: 11/17/2015Modified: 4/28/2026
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."
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/sudofrom 0, < 1.8.15-1.1
- Debian/sudofrom 0, < 1.7.4p4-2.squeeze.6
- Debian/sudofrom 0, < 1.8.5p2-1+nmu3+deb7u1