Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-1993

Title: Todd Miller Sudo Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-1993.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jun 20, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.7 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-1993: Race condition in sudo 1.3.1 up to 1.6.8p8, when the ALL pseudo-command is used after a user entry in the sudoers file, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack.

Impacted Vendors

todd_miller 1

gratisoft 1

Reference Links

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302847 http://secunia.com/advisories/15744 http://secunia.com/advisories/17813 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-735 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html http://www.osvdb.org/17396 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-535.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/402741 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425974/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13993 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15647 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/path_race.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0821 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2659 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161116 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21080 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11341 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1242 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302847 http://secunia.com/advisories/15744 http://secunia.com/advisories/17813 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-735 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html http://www.osvdb.org/17396 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-535.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/402741 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425974/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13993 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15647 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/path_race.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0821 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2659 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161116 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21080 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11341 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1242

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.7

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-1993 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 20, 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:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.