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high 7.2

CVE-2015-5602 json

sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multip…

published 2015-11-17 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-5556

cvss
7.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers, as demonstrated by "/home/*/*/file.txt."

Patch / fix

  • sudo Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.8.15-1.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5602

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-5602 updated cvss 6.8

sudo: Unauthorized privilege escalation in sudoedit

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 sudo Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 sudo Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 sudo
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-37710)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-37710 Sudo 1.8.14 (RHEL 5/6/7 / Ubuntu) - 'Sudoedit' Unauthorized Privilege Escalation local, 2015-07-28
  • bugzilla.sudo.ws http://bugzilla.sudo.ws/show_bug.cgi?id=707 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

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