Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-0010

Title: Todd Miller Sudo

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-0010.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Jan 18, 2011

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.4 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.50%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-0010: check.c in sudo 1.7.x before 1.7.4p5, when a Runas group is configured, does not require a password for command execution that involves a gid change but no uid change, which allows local users to bypass an intended authentication requirement via the -g option to a sudo command.

Impacted Vendors

todd_miller 1

gratisoft 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609641 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053263.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053341.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/11/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/12/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/12/3 http://secunia.com/advisories/42886 http://secunia.com/advisories/42949 http://secunia.com/advisories/42968 http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 http://secunia.com/advisories/43282 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-06.xml http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2011&m=slackware-security.593654 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:018 http://www.osvdb.org/70400 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0599.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45774 http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/07d1b0ce530e http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/fe8a94f96542 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/runas_group_pw.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1046-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0089 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0182 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0195 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0199 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0362 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668879 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64636 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609641 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053263.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053341.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/11/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/12/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/12/3 http://secunia.com/advisories/42886 http://secunia.com/advisories/42949 http://secunia.com/advisories/42968 http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 http://secunia.com/advisories/43282 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-06.xml http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2011&m=slackware-security.593654 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:018 http://www.osvdb.org/70400 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0599.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45774 http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/07d1b0ce530e http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/fe8a94f96542 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/runas_group_pw.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1046-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0089 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0182 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0195 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0199 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0362 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668879 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64636

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.4

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-0010 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 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 18, 2011 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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.