CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-0151

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The vulnerability in sudo 1.6.8 and other versions is due to not clearing the PYTHONINSPECT environment variable, allowing limited local users to escalate privileges via a Python script. This is a variant of CVE-2005-4158.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves privilege escalation by a local user, potentially leading to unauthorized access to system resources or code execution with elevated privileges.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update sudo to a version that fixes this vulnerability and configure environment variable sanitization policies in the sudoers file.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

sudo 1.6.8 and other versions does not clear the PYTHONINSPECT environment variable, which allows limited local users to gain privileges via a Python script, a variant of CVE-2005-4158.

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