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CVE-2017-1000368

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.2 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Todd Miller's sudo version 1.8.20p1 and earlier is vulnerable to an input validation (embedded newlines) in the get_process_ttyname() function resulting in information disclosure and command execution.

Affected products

• sudo: through 1.8.20; 1.8.20-p1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98838
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1574
• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10205
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-04
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3968-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3968-2/
• https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/linux_tty.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98838
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1574
• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10205
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-04
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3968-1/

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