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CVE-2005-2959
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in sudo 1.6.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) SHELLOPTS and (2) PS4…
- 4.6MediumCVSS base score
- 0.62%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 50% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in sudo 1.6.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) SHELLOPTS and (2) PS4 environment variables before executing a bash script on behalf of another user, which are not cleared even though other variables are.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 36 days later
· 36 days later
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.62% · top 50% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
19
- http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 17666 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 18549 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- TA07-072A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- MDKSA-2005:201 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2007-03-13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-870 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 17322 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 17390 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2006:002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 15191 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 17345 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2007-0930 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 17318 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-213-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2005:025 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- OpenPKG-SA-2006.002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENPKGx_transferred
- 24479 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-2959 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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