CVE-2006-0151: Todd Miller Sudo

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sudo 1.6.8 and other versions does not clear the PYTHONINSPECT environment variable, which allows limited local users to gain privileges via a Python script, a variant of CVE-2005-4158.

Affected products

• Todd Miller Sudo: version 1.5.6 only; version 1.5.7 only; version 1.5.8 only; version 1.5.9 only; version 1.6 only; version 1.6.1 only; …
• Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux: version 4.1 only; version 5.04 only; version 5.10 only

Published 2006-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.