Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-1051

Title: sudo environment variable privilege escalation

Privilege Escalation

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-1051.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Mar 01, 2005

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.27%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-1051: sudo before 1.6.8p2 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by using "()" style environment variables to create functions that have the same name as any program within the bash script that is called without using the program's full pathname.

Impacted Vendors

todd_miller 1

mandrakesoft 1

gratisoft 1

Reference Links

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/May/msg00001.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110028877431192&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110598298225675&w=2 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-596 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:133 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11668 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/bash_functions.html http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0061/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18055 https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-28-1/ http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/May/msg00001.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110028877431192&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110598298225675&w=2 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-596 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:133 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11668 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/bash_functions.html http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0061/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18055 https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-28-1/

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-1051 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 01, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.