CVE-2010-1163

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-04-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The command matching functionality in sudo 1.6.8 through 1.7.2p5 does not properly handle when a file in the current working directory has the same name as a pseudo-command in the sudoers file and the PATH contains an entry for ".", which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a Trojan horse executable, as demonstrated using sudoedit, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0426.

Affected products

Todd Miller Sudo: 1.6.8, 1.6.8_p1, 1.6.8_p2, 1.6.8_p5, 1.6.8_p7, 1.6.8_p8 (+15)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039986.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/39384
http://secunia.com/advisories/39399
http://secunia.com/advisories/39474
http://secunia.com/advisories/39543
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.577019
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0075
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:078
http://www.osvdb.org/63878
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0361.html

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