CVE-2002-0043 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting sudo versions 1.6.0 through 1.6.3p7. It allows local users to gain root privileges by manipulating environment variables before sudo invokes the mail program, which fails to properly clear the environment. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH), indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:todd_miller:sudo:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:todd_miller:sudo:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:todd_miller:sudo:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:todd_miller:sudo:1.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.3_p1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:todd_miller:sudo:1.6.3_p1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.