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CVE-2016-7076

Public on 2017-01-04
Modified on 2017-01-04
Description

It was discovered that the sudo noexec restriction could have been bypassed 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.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.4
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 sudo 2017-01-04 17:00 ALAS-2017-780

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.6 AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H