CVE-2011-0008

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

A certain Fedora patch for parse.c in sudo before 1.7.4p5-1.fc14 on Fedora 14 does not properly interpret a system group (aka %group) in the sudoers file during authorization decisions for a user who belongs to that group, which allows local users to leverage an applicable sudoers file and gain root privileges via a sudo command. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-0034 regression.

Affected products

Todd Miller Sudo: through 1.7.4p5; 1.3.1, 1.5, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.6, 1.5.7 (+107)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053263.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053341.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42968
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:018
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0195
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0199
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668843
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64965
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053263.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053341.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42968
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:018

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