CVE-2004-1689

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 1.2%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDFeb 20

1st PoCSep 21

exploitation probability

1.2%top 36% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

sudoedit (aka sudo -e) in sudo 1.6.8 opens a temporary file with root privileges, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file before quitting sudoedit.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/470 cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txtunverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109537972929201&w=2 http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/12596 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17424 http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-219.shtml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/424358 http://www.osvdb.org/10023 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11204 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.html