CVE-2005-4158
Sudo before 1.6.8 p12, when the Perl taint flag is off, does not clear the (1) PERLLIB, (2) PERL5LIB, and (3) PERL5OPT environment variables, which allows limited local users to cause a Perl script to
02 Description
Sudo before 1.6.8 p12, when the Perl taint flag is off, does not clear the (1) PERLLIB, (2) PERL5LIB, and (3) PERL5OPT environment variables, which allows limited local users to cause a Perl script to
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
- 1.07% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 64.8% 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
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
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
- 2005-12-11 02:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 23:38Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-12-11
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 293e91a55becc0956300e59781f6cb4c46d0f290426f6a8ec99db12bf9bd4533
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2005:234http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:234
- secunia.com18549http://secunia.com/advisories/18549
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comsudo-perl-execute-code(23102)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23102
- secunia.com18558http://secunia.com/advisories/18558
- www.trustix.org2006-0002http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0002/
- secunia.com18463http://secunia.com/advisories/18463
- secunia.com18308http://secunia.com/advisories/18308
- www.vupen.comADV-2005-2386http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2386
- www.securityfocus.com15394http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15394
- secunia.com18156http://secunia.com/advisories/18156
- secunia.com18102http://secunia.com/advisories/18102
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-235-1https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-235-1/
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2006:002http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_02_sr.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-946http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-946
- securitytracker.com1015192http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Nov/1015192.html
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2006:159http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:159
- secunia.com21692http://secunia.com/advisories/21692
- www.sudo.wshttp://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/perl_env.html
- secunia.com17534http://secunia.com/advisories/17534/
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- sudo Fixed in 1.6.8p12-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- sudo Fixed in 1.6.8p12-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- sudo Fixed in 1.6.8p12-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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