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CVE-2005-4158

Sudo before 1.6.8 p12, when the Perl taint flag is off, does not clear the (1) PERLLIB, (2) PERL5LIB, and (3) PERL5OPT environment variables, which allows limited local users to cause a Perl script to include and execute arbitrary library files that have the same name as library files that are included by the script.

  • Published: Dec 11, 2005
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2005-4158
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.6
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

No CWE or OWASP classifications available.

Software From Fixed in
todd_miller / sudo 1.5.8 1.5.8.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.3_p6 1.6.3_p6.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.5.9 1.5.9.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.6 1.6.6.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.8_p7 1.6.8_p7.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.3 1.6.3.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.4_p2 1.6.4_p2.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.1 1.6.1.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.3_p5 1.6.3_p5.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.5.7 1.5.7.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.2 1.6.2.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.8 1.6.8.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.4_p1 1.6.4_p1.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.3_p2 1.6.3_p2.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.3_p4 1.6.3_p4.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.8_p9 1.6.8_p9.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.5_p2 1.6.5_p2.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.5 1.6.5.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.3_p3 1.6.3_p3.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.8_p1 1.6.8_p1.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.5_p1 1.6.5_p1.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.3_p7 1.6.3_p7.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6 1.6.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.4 1.6.4.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.7 1.6.7.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.8_p5 1.6.8_p5.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.8_p8 1.6.8_p8.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.3_p1 1.6.3_p1.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.5.6 1.5.6.x
todd_miller / sudo 1.6.7_p5 1.6.7_p5.x