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Vulnerability Details : CVE-2021-23239

The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a local unprivileged user to perform arbitrary directory-existence tests by winning a sudo_edit.c race condition in replacing a user-controlled directory by a symlink to an arbitrary path.
Publish Date : 2021-01-12 Last Update Date : 2022-11-09
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- CVSS Scores & Vulnerability Types

CVSS Score
1.9
Confidentiality Impact Partial (There is considerable informational disclosure.)
Integrity Impact None (There is no impact to the integrity of the system)
Availability Impact None (There is no impact to the availability of the system.)
Access Complexity Medium (The access conditions are somewhat specialized. Some preconditions must be satistified to exploit)
Authentication Not required (Authentication is not required to exploit the vulnerability.)
Gained Access None
Vulnerability Type(s)
CWE ID 59

- Related OVAL Definitions

Title Definition Id Class Family
RHSA-2021:1723: sudo security and bug fix update (Low) oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20211723 unix
OVAL (Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language) definitions define exactly what should be done to verify a vulnerability or a missing patch. Check out the OVAL definitions if you want to learn what you should do to verify a vulnerability.

- Products Affected By CVE-2021-23239

# Product Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language
1 OS Debian Debian Linux 10.0 * * * Version Details Vulnerabilities
2 OS Fedoraproject Fedora 32 * * * Version Details Vulnerabilities
3 OS Fedoraproject Fedora 33 * * * Version Details Vulnerabilities
4 Application Netapp Cloud Backup - * * * Version Details Vulnerabilities
5 Application Netapp Hci Management Node - * * * Version Details Vulnerabilities
6 Application Netapp Solidfire - * * * Version Details Vulnerabilities
7 Application Sudo Project Sudo * * * * Version Details Vulnerabilities

- Number Of Affected Versions By Product

Vendor Product Vulnerable Versions
Debian Debian Linux 1
Fedoraproject Fedora 2
Netapp Cloud Backup 1
Netapp Hci Management Node 1
Netapp Solidfire 1
Sudo Project Sudo 1

- References For CVE-2021-23239

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EE42Y35SMJOLONAIBNYNFC7J44UUZ2Y6/
FEDORA FEDORA-2021-324479472c
https://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.9.5 CONFIRM
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00007.html
MLIST [debian-lts-announce] 20221107 [SECURITY] [DLA 3181-1] sudo security update
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2021-23239
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-33
GENTOO GLSA-202101-33
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0010/ CONFIRM
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GMY4VSSBIND7VAYSN6T7XIWJRWG4GBB3/
FEDORA FEDORA-2021-234d14bfcc

- Metasploit Modules Related To CVE-2021-23239

There are not any metasploit modules related to this CVE entry (Please visit www.metasploit.com for more information)
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