CVE-2013-1775
sudo 1.6.0 through 1.7.10p6 and sudo 1.8.0 through 1.8.6p6 allows local users or physically proximate attackers to bypass intended time…
- 6.9MediumCVSS base score
- 3.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 12% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
sudo 1.6.0 through 1.7.10p6 and sudo 1.8.0 through 1.8.6p6 allows local users or physically proximate attackers to bypass intended time restrictions and retain privileges without re-authenticating by setting the system clock and sudo user timestamp to the epoch.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- Mac OS X Sudo Password Bypass (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/osx/local/sudo_password_bypassRank normaldisclosed 28 Feb 2013
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Apple Mac OSX 10.8.4 - Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 27965local, osxpublished 30 Aug 2013Verified
- Apple Mac OSX - Sudo Password Bypass (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 27944local, osxpublished 29 Aug 2013Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 13 days later
· 13 days later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 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 | Medium6.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
17
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 58203 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/ddf399e3e306 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/epoch_ticket.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 90677 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1701 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-2642 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0495 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-1754-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2015-08-13-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2013-09-12-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- SSA:2013-065-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130227 CVE request: sudo authentication bypass when clock is reset (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1353 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/ebd6cc75020f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2013-1800 (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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