Security Advisory

CVE-2004-1689

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-02-20 05:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-08 01:00:37

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

sudoedit (aka sudo -e) in sudo 1.6.8 opens a temporary file with root privileges, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file before quitting sudoedit.

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