CVE-2005-1831 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Sudo 1.6.8p7 on SuSE Linux 9.3, and possibly other Linux distributions, allows local users to gain privileges by using sudo to call su, then entering a blank password and hitting CTRL-C. NOTE: SuSE and multiple third-party researchers have not been able to replicate this issue, stating "Sudo catches SIGINT and returns an empty string for the password so I don't see how this could happen unless the user's actual password was empty.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0025.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:todd_miller:sudo:1.6.8p7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Todd Miller Subscribe	Sudo Subscribe

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-05/0349.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-05/0359.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111755694008928&w=2
http://www.osvdb.org/20417

History

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 8.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-06-02T08:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-01-16T19:09:52.691Z

Reserved: 2005-06-02T04:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-1831

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-07T22:06:57.739Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2005-05-31T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2005-1831

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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