CVE-2002-0043: Todd Miller Sudo

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sudo 1.6.0 through 1.6.3p7 does not properly clear the environment before calling the mail program, which could allow local users to gain root privileges by modifying environment variables and changing how the mail program is invoked.

Affected products

• Todd Miller Sudo: version 1.6 only; version 1.6.1 only; version 1.6.2 only; version 1.6.3 only; version 1.6.3_p1 only; version 1.6.3_p2 only; …

Published 2002-01-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.