Bypassing Command Restrictions via Crafted Environment Variable in Sudo

Bypassing Command Restrictions via Crafted Environment Variable in Sudo

CVE-2014-0106 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Sudo 1.6.9 before 1.8.5, when env_reset is disabled, does not properly check environment variables for the env_delete restriction, which allows local users with sudo permissions to bypass intended command restrictions via a crafted environment variable.

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