Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-0426

Title: Todd Miller Sudo Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-0426.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Feb 24, 2010

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.9 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.13%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-0426: sudo 1.6.x before 1.6.9p21 and 1.7.x before 1.7.2p4, when a pseudo-command is enabled, permits a match between the name of the pseudo-command and the name of an executable file in an arbitrary directory, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted executable file, as demonstrated by a file named sudoedit in a user's home directory.

Impacted Vendors

todd_miller 1

gratisoft 1

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/sudo/sudo-1.6.9p21.patch.gz http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570737 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/040578.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/040588.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/38659 http://secunia.com/advisories/38762 http://secunia.com/advisories/38795 http://secunia.com/advisories/38803 http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 http://secunia.com/advisories/39399 http://securitytracker.com/id?1023658 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.577019 http://sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=389 http://sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/88f3181692fe http://sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/f86e1b56d074 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0075 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2006 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201003-01.xml http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-security-4/the-use-of-sudoedit-command-question-785442/ http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:049 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514489/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38362 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/stable.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-905-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0450 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0949 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10814 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7238 ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/sudo/sudo-1.6.9p21.patch.gz http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570737 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/040578.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/040588.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/38659 http://secunia.com/advisories/38762 http://secunia.com/advisories/38795 http://secunia.com/advisories/38803 http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 http://secunia.com/advisories/39399 http://securitytracker.com/id?1023658 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.577019 http://sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=389 http://sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/88f3181692fe http://sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/f86e1b56d074 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0075 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2006 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201003-01.xml http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-security-4/the-use-of-sudoedit-command-question-785442/ http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:049 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514489/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38362 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/stable.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-905-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0450 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0949 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10814 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7238

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns