{"id":"CVE-2021-23239","details":"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.","modified":"2026-05-15T12:04:09.386866238Z","published":"2021-01-12T09:15:14.043Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2021:0225-1","SUSE-SU-2021:0226-1","SUSE-SU-2021:0227-1","SUSE-SU-2021:0232-1","openSUSE-SU-2021:0169-1","openSUSE-SU-2021:0170-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:11413-1"],"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"vendor_product":"debian:debian_linux","source":"CPE_FIELD","extracted_events":[{"last_affected":"10.0"}]},{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"vendor_product":"fedoraproject:fedora","source":"CPE_FIELD","extracted_events":[{"last_affected":"32"},{"last_affected":"33"}]}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EE42Y35SMJOLONAIBNYNFC7J44UUZ2Y6/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GMY4VSSBIND7VAYSN6T7XIWJRWG4GBB3/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00007.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-33"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210129-0010/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.sudo.ws/stable.html#1.9.5"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2021-23239"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"}]}