CVE-2021-23239 (GCVE-0-2021-23239)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-12 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:05
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Summary
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.
Severity
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CWE
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