CVE-2016-7076

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
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: none known
Published: 2018-05-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-184

Description

sudo before version 1.8.18p1 is vulnerable to a bypass in the sudo noexec restriction if application run via sudo executed wordexp() C library function with a user supplied argument. A local user permitted to run such application via sudo with noexec restriction could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges.

Affected products

sudo: from 1.6.8 through 1.8.18

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2872.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95778
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7076
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0002/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3968-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3968-3/
https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/noexec_wordexp.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2872.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95778
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7076
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0002/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3968-1/

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