CVE-2005-4158

Sudo before 1.6.8 p12, when the Perl taint flag is off, does not clear the (1) PERLLIB, (2) PERL5LIB, and (3) PERL5OPT environment variables, which allows…

published December 11, 2005

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
64.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Sudo before 1.6.8 p12, when the Perl taint flag is off, does not clear the (1) PERLLIB, (2) PERL5LIB, and (3) PERL5OPT environment variables, which allows limited local users to cause a Perl script to include and execute arbitrary library files that have the same name as library files that are included by the script.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01077 · 64.5th percentile
Published
2005-12-11T02:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 DEC 02:00Z
    Sudo before 1.6.8 p12, when the Perl taint flag is off, does not clear the (1) PERLLIB, (2) PERL5LIB, and (3) PERL5OPT environment variables, which allows…
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