ALPINE-CVE-2021-23239

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Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-23239
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-23239.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2021-23239
Upstream
Published
2021-01-12T09:15:14.043Z
Modified
2026-07-08T04:30:59.121863684Z
Severity
  • 2.5 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a local unprivileged user to perform arbitrary directory-existence tests by winning a sudo_edit.c race condition in replacing a user-controlled directory by a symlink to an arbitrary path.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.10
sudo

Package

Name
sudo
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sudo?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
1.9.0
Fixed
1.9.5p2-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-23239.json"
Alpine:v3.11
sudo

Package

Name
sudo
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sudo?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
1.9.0
Fixed
1.9.5p2-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-23239.json"
Alpine:v3.12
sudo

Package

Name
sudo
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sudo?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
1.9.0
Fixed
1.9.5-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-23239.json"
Alpine:v3.13
sudo

Package

Name
sudo
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sudo?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
1.9.0
Fixed
1.9.5-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-23239.json"
Alpine:v3.14
sudo

Package

Name
sudo
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sudo?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
1.9.0
Fixed
1.9.5-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-23239.json"
Alpine:v3.15
sudo

Package

Name
sudo
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/sudo?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
1.9.0
Fixed
1.9.5-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-23239.json"