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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 12, 2021· Updated Aug 3, 2024

CVE-2021-23239

CVE-2021-23239

Description

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.

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