Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-1689

Title: sudo sudoedit arbitrary file read via symlink

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2004-1689

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Sep 16, 2004

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.16%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-1689: sudoedit (aka sudo -e) in sudo 1.6.8 opens a temporary file with root privileges, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file before quitting sudoedit.

Impacted Vendors

todd_miller 1

gratisoft 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109537972929201&w=2 http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/12596 http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-219.shtml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/424358 http://www.osvdb.org/10023 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11204 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17424 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109537972929201&w=2 http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/12596 http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-219.shtml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/424358 http://www.osvdb.org/10023 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11204 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17424

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-1689 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/470

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 16, 2004 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:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.