Microsoft security update for CVE-2021-23239
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products4
- sudo-1.9.5p2-2.cm1.aarch64.rpm on CBL Mariner 1.0 ARM
- sudo-1.9.5p2-2.cm1.x86_64.rpm on CBL Mariner 1.0 x64
- sudo-debuginfo-1.9.5p2-2.cm1.aarch64.rpm on CBL Mariner 1.0 ARM
- sudo-debuginfo-1.9.5p2-2.cm1.x86_64.rpm on CBL Mariner 1.0 x64
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | - |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2021-23239
- EchelonGraph score
- 2.5 LOW
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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.
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2021-23239, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).