CVE-2005-2959
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in sudo 1.6.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) SHELLOPTS and (2) PS4 environment variables before executing a bash script on behalf of
02 Description
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in sudo 1.6.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) SHELLOPTS and (2) PS4 environment variables before executing a bash script on behalf of
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.62% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 49.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-10-25 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 22:53Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-09-19
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- ff980001732e96ce1d7c677539d7b382afeb39726326c7bfedb7a23b5df49c98
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.sudo.wshttp://www.sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182
- secunia.com17666http://secunia.com/advisories/17666
- secunia.com18549http://secunia.com/advisories/18549
- www.us-cert.govTA07-072Ahttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2005:201http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:201
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2007-03-13http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html
- docs.info.apple.comhttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
- www.debian.orgDSA-870http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-870
- secunia.com17322http://secunia.com/advisories/17322
- secunia.com17390http://secunia.com/advisories/17390
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2006:002http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_02_sr.html
- www.securityfocus.com15191http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15191
- secunia.com17345http://secunia.com/advisories/17345
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-0930http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930
- secunia.com17318http://secunia.com/advisories/17318
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-213-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/213-1/
- www.securityfocus.comSUSE-SR:2005:025http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9643
- www.openpkg.orgOpenPKG-SA-2006.002http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2006.002-sudo.html
- secunia.com24479http://secunia.com/advisories/24479
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- sudo Fixed in 1.6.8p9-3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- sudo Fixed in 1.6.8p9-3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- sudo Fixed in 1.6.8p9-3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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