Description
The command matching functionality in sudo 1.6.8 through 1.7.2p5 does not properly handle when a file in the current working directory has the same name as a pseudo-command in the sudoers file and the PATH contains an entry for ".", which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a Trojan horse executable, as demonstrated using sudoedit, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0426.
Published: 2010-04-16
Score: 6.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-1193 The command matching functionality in sudo 1.6.8 through 1.7.2p5 does not properly handle when a file in the current working directory has the same name as a pseudo-command in the sudoers file and the PATH contains an entry for ".", which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a Trojan horse executable, as demonstrated using sudoedit, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0426.
References
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039986.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39384 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39399 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39474 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39543 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.577019 cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0075 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:078 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.osvdb.org/63878 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0361.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510827/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510846/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510880/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514489/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39468 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit_escalate2.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-928-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0881 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0895 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0904 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0949 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0956 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1019 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/57836 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1163 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9382 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-1163 cve-icon
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
Todd Miller Sudo
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T01:14:06.554Z

Reserved: 2010-03-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-1163

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2010-04-16T19:30:00.523

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-1163

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2010-04-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-1163 - Bugzilla

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