CVE-2021-23239
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23239
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-23239.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-23239
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2021-01-12T09:15:14Z
- Modified
- 2025-10-28T04:06:40.887797Z
- Severity
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- 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
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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
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- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2021-23239
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-33
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0010/
- https://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.9.5
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EE42Y35SMJOLONAIBNYNFC7J44UUZ2Y6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GMY4VSSBIND7VAYSN6T7XIWJRWG4GBB3/