Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-2337

Title: Todd Miller Sudo

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-2337.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date May 18, 2012

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-2337: sudo 1.6.x and 1.7.x before 1.7.9p1, and 1.8.x before 1.8.4p5, does not properly support configurations that use a netmask syntax, which allows local users to bypass intended command restrictions in opportunistic circumstances by executing a command on a host that has an IPv4 address.

Impacted Vendors

todd_miller 1

gratisoft 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/081432.html http://secunia.com/advisories/49219 http://secunia.com/advisories/49244 http://secunia.com/advisories/49291 http://secunia.com/advisories/49948 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2478 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:079 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027077 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/netmask.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820677 https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2337/ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/081432.html http://secunia.com/advisories/49219 http://secunia.com/advisories/49244 http://secunia.com/advisories/49291 http://secunia.com/advisories/49948 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2478 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:079 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027077 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/netmask.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820677 https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2337/

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-2012-2337 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.

May 18, 2012 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.