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ubuntu-cve-2015-5602

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2015-11-17 15:59

Modified

2025-09-08 16:43

Summary

Details

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."

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5602	REPORT
	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5602	REPORT

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CVE-2015-5602 (GCVE-0-2015-5602)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-17 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:50

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

9 references

URL	Tags
http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/	exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA

Date Public

2015-07-28 00:00

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2015-5602 (GCVE-0-2015-5602)

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