Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Default Sudo Configuration

CVE-2016-7091 · MEDIUM Severity

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

sudo: It was discovered that the default sudo configuration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and possibly other Linux implementations preserves the value of INPUTRC which could lead to information disclosure. A local user with sudo access to a restricted program that uses readline could use this flaw to read content from specially formatted files with elevated privileges provided by sudo.

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