Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-5602

Title: Sudo Project Sudo Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2015-5602

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date Nov 17, 2015
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.46%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-5602: sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers, as demonstrated by "/home/*/*/file.txt."

Impacted Vendors

T
todd_miller 1
S
sudo_project 1
G
gratisoft 1

Reference Links

http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392 http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/ http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171024.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171054.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3440 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034392 http://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.8.15 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-13 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710/
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-2015-5602 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

GitHub https://github.com/t0kx/privesc-CVE-2015-5602
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Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37710
View Code
MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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.