CVE - CVE-2021-23239

CVE-ID
CVE-2021-23239	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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CONFIRM:https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0010/ CONFIRM:https://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.9.5 FEDORA:FEDORA-2021-234d14bfcc URL:https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GMY4VSSBIND7VAYSN6T7XIWJRWG4GBB3/ FEDORA:FEDORA-2021-324479472c URL:https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EE42Y35SMJOLONAIBNYNFC7J44UUZ2Y6/ GENTOO:GLSA-202101-33 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-33 MISC:https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2021-23239 MLIST:[debian-lts-announce] 20221107 [SECURITY] [DLA 3181-1] sudo security update URL:https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00007.html
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20210107	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20210107)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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