Security Advisory

CVE-2016-7076

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-05-29 13:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:50:46
Assigner redhat
CVSS score 6.4
State PUBLISHED

Description

sudo before version 1.8.18p1 is vulnerable to a bypass in the sudo noexec restriction if application run via sudo executed wordexp() C library function with a user supplied argument. A local user permitted to run such application via sudo with noexec restriction could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges.