CVE-2010-1646

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 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: 2010-06-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The secure path feature in env.c in sudo 1.3.1 through 1.6.9p22 and 1.7.0 through 1.7.2p6 does not properly handle an environment that contains multiple PATH variables, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted value of the last PATH variable.

Affected products

Todd Miller Sudo: 1.3.1, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.2p1, 1.6.2p2 (+68)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/042838.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043012.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043026.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/40002
http://secunia.com/advisories/40188
http://secunia.com/advisories/40215
http://secunia.com/advisories/40508
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201009-03.xml
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0075
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2062

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