Privilege Escalation via Incomplete Blacklist Vulnerability in Sudo 1.6.8 and Earlier

CVE-2005-2959 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in sudo 1.6.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) SHELLOPTS and (2) PS4 environment variables before executing a bash script on behalf of another user, which are not cleared even though other variables are.

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