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Vulnerability details: VCID-hac2-bg9e-bfbr
Vulnerability ID VCID-hac2-bg9e-bfbr
Aliases CVE-2005-2959
Summary Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in sudo 1.6.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) SHELLOPTS and (2) PS4 environment variables before executing a bash script on behalf of another user, which are not cleared even though other variables are.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 4.1
Risk 2.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
System Score Found at
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epss 0.00128 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2005-2959
epss 0.00128 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2005-2959
cvssv2 4.6 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2959
Reference id Reference type URL
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2005-2959.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2005-2959
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2959
http://secunia.com/advisories/17318
http://secunia.com/advisories/17322
http://secunia.com/advisories/17345
http://secunia.com/advisories/17390
http://secunia.com/advisories/17666
http://secunia.com/advisories/18549
http://secunia.com/advisories/24479
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-870
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:201
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_02_sr.html
http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2006.002-sudo.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9643
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15191
http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930
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CVE-2005-2959 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2959
USN-213-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/213-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2959
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.32196
EPSS Score 0.00128
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T15:01:14.072064+00:00 RedHat Importer Import https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2005-2959.json 38.0.0