What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-5602

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-11-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers, as demonstrated by "/home/*/*/file.txt."

Affected products

• sudo: through 1.8.14

References

• http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392
• http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/
• http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html

Get alerted when CVE-2015-5602 or the next vulnerability affects your stack