CVE-2005-4890

Published: Nov 4, 2019Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-20

7.8HIGH

NVD MITRE

Description

There is a possible tty hijacking in shadow 4.x before 4.1.5 and sudo 1.x before 1.7.4 via "su - user -c program". The user session can be escaped to the parent session by using the TIOCSTI ioctl to push characters into the input buffer to be read by the next process.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:LAttack Vector

Local

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:LPrivileges Required

Low

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:HIntegrity

High

A:HAvailability

High

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected Products

Red Hat

commercial·USaka redhat

shadow

OSS Libraries / generic-library

sudo

OSS Libraries / generic-library

enterprise linuxOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

debian

oss-project·GBaka debian gnu/linux

shadowOn-prem

Operating Systems / linux-distro

debian linuxOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

sudo project

oss-project·USaka sudo

sudoMixed

Operating Systems / unix-bsd

Exploitability

1 exploit source identified

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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique

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References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/15/5

openwall.com

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-4890

security-tracker.debian.org

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2005-4890

bugzilla.redhat.com

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