{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2004-1689", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "sudoedit (aka sudo -e) in sudo 1.6.8 opens a temporary file with root privileges, which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file before quitting sudoedit." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "12596", "refsource": "SECUNIA", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/12596" }, { "name": "20040916 [sudo-announce] Sudo version 1.6.8p1 now available (fwd)", "refsource": "BUGTRAQ", "url": "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109537972929201&w=2" }, { "name": "VU#424358", "refsource": "CERT-VN", "url": "http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/424358" }, { "name": "10023", "refsource": "OSVDB", "url": "http://www.osvdb.org/10023" }, { "name": "11204", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11204" }, { "name": "O-219", "refsource": "CIAC", "url": "http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-219.shtml" }, { "name": "sudo-sudoedit-view-files(17424)", "refsource": "XF", "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17424" }, { "name": "http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.html", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.html" }, { "name": "http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txt", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txt" } ] } }