CVE-2006-0151

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: 2006-01-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

sudo 1.6.8 and other versions does not clear the PYTHONINSPECT environment variable, which allows limited local users to gain privileges via a Python script, a variant of CVE-2005-4158.

Affected products

Todd Miller Sudo: 1.5.6, 1.5.7, 1.5.8, 1.5.9, 1.6, 1.6.1 (+26)
Ubuntu Linux: 4.1, 5.04, 5.10

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/18358
http://secunia.com/advisories/18363
http://secunia.com/advisories/18549
http://secunia.com/advisories/18558
http://secunia.com/advisories/18906
http://secunia.com/advisories/19016
http://secunia.com/advisories/21692
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.421822
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-946
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:159
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_02_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16184

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