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CVE-2005-2959

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.6 Published: 2005-10-25 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in sudo 1.6.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) SHELLOPTS and (2) PS4 environment variables before executing a bash script on behalf of another user, which are not cleared even though other variables are.

Affected Platforms

Todd Miller Sudo

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References