Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-9680

Title: Sudo Project Sudo Information Disclosure

Information Disclosure

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-9680.

CWE Category CWE-200

Published Date Apr 24, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.3 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.47%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-9680: sudo before 1.8.12 does not ensure that the TZ environment variable is associated with a zoneinfo file, which allows local users to open arbitrary files for read access (but not view file contents) by running a program within an sudo session, as demonstrated by interfering with terminal output, discarding kernel-log messages, or repositioning tape drives.

Impacted Vendors

todd_miller 1

sudo_project 1

gratisoft 1

Reference Links

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/15/24 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1409.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033158 http://www.sudo.ws/alerts/tz.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-02 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/15/24 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1409.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033158 http://www.sudo.ws/alerts/tz.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-02

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns