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CVE-2021-3156

Vulnerability data via CVEDB (Shodan)

CISA KEVKnown exploited in the wild.
CISA action: Sudo contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows for privilege escalation.
CVSS v3.1
7.8
HIGH
EPSS percentile
100
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 0% of all CVEs
Description

Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character.

Timeline
Published 2021-01-26

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