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low 3.7

CVE-2005-1993 json

Race condition in sudo 1.3.1 up to 1.6.8p8, when the ALL pseudo-command is used after a user entry in the sudoers file, allows local users…

published 2005-06-20 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-1995

cvss
3.7
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 34%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Race condition in sudo 1.3.1 up to 1.6.8p8, when the ALL pseudo-command is used after a user entry in the sudoers file, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack.

Patch / fix

  • sudo Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.6.8p9-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1993

  • sudo RHEL 3 1.6.7p5-1.1
  • sudo RHEL 4 1.6.7p5-30.1.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:535

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-2005-1993 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 sudo 1.6.7p5-1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 sudo 1.6.7p5-1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 sudo 1.6.7p5-30.1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 sudo 1.6.7p5-30.1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 sudo 1.6.7p5-1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 sudo 1.6.7p5-30.1.1
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 sudo 1.6.7p5-1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 sudo 1.6.7p5-30.1.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:535

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

Exploit prediction

0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 3.7 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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