CVE-2010-0427

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-02-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

sudo 1.6.x before 1.6.9p21, when the runas_default option is used, does not properly set group memberships, which allows local users to gain privileges via a sudo command.

Affected products

Todd Miller Sudo: 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.3_p1, 1.6.3_p2 (+22)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/38762
http://secunia.com/advisories/38795
http://secunia.com/advisories/38803
http://secunia.com/advisories/38915
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023658
http://sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/aa0b6c01c462
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0075
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2006
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201003-01.xml
http://www.gratisoft.us/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=255

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