ALPINE-CVE-2021-3156

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-3156
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-3156.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2021-3156
Upstream
Published
2021-01-26T21:15:12.987Z
Modified
2026-07-08T04:31:23.020720110Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.10
sudo

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
1.8.2
Fixed
1.9.5p2-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-3156.json"
Alpine:v3.11
sudo

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
1.8.2
Fixed
1.8.31-r1

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-3156.json"
Alpine:v3.12
sudo

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
1.8.2
Fixed
1.9.5p2-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-3156.json"
Alpine:v3.13
sudo

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
1.8.2
Fixed
1.9.5p2-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-3156.json"
Alpine:v3.14
sudo

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
1.8.2
Fixed
1.9.5p2-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-3156.json"
Alpine:v3.15
sudo

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
1.8.2
Fixed
1.9.5p2-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-3156.json"