CVE-2005-2959

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-10-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

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 another user, which are not cleared even though other variables are.

Affected products

Todd Miller Sudo: 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.3_p1, 1.6.3_p2 (+26)

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/17318
http://secunia.com/advisories/17322
http://secunia.com/advisories/17345
http://secunia.com/advisories/17390
http://secunia.com/advisories/17666
http://secunia.com/advisories/18549
http://secunia.com/advisories/24479
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-870
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:201
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_02_sr.html

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