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CVE-2014-9680

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-9680 is a low-severity vulnerability affecting sudo before version 1.8.12. It allows local users to open arbitrary files for read access, though not view their contents, by manipulating the TZ environment variable within a sudo session. This could lead to interference with terminal output or kernel logs. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.3, indicating a low impact with no confidentiality, integrity, or availability compromise. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.8.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sudo_project:sudo:*:p2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

3.3LOW

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0047 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 1,509 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: sudo-0:1.8.6p3-19.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: sudo-0:1.8.6p7-16.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: sudo
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: sudo

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-9680Moderate

sudo: unsafe handling of TZ environment variable

Oct 16, 2014

References

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/10/15/24
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1409.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201504-02
securitytracker.com / id/1033158
sudo.ws / alerts/tz.html
Vendor Advisory