Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-0151

Title: Todd Miller Sudo Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-0151.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jan 09, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.61%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-0151: sudo 1.6.8 and other versions does not clear the PYTHONINSPECT environment variable, which allows limited local users to gain privileges via a Python script, a variant of CVE-2005-4158.

Impacted Vendors

todd_miller 1

gratisoft 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/18358 http://secunia.com/advisories/18363 http://secunia.com/advisories/18549 http://secunia.com/advisories/18558 http://secunia.com/advisories/18906 http://secunia.com/advisories/19016 http://secunia.com/advisories/21692 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.421822 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-946 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:159 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_02_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16184 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0010 https://usn.ubuntu.com/235-2/ http://secunia.com/advisories/18358 http://secunia.com/advisories/18363 http://secunia.com/advisories/18549 http://secunia.com/advisories/18558 http://secunia.com/advisories/18906 http://secunia.com/advisories/19016 http://secunia.com/advisories/21692 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.421822 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-946 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:159 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_02_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16184 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0010 https://usn.ubuntu.com/235-2/

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-2006-0151 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.

January 09, 2006 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.