CVE-2010-1163: Todd Miller Sudo

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The command matching functionality in sudo 1.6.8 through 1.7.2p5 does not properly handle when a file in the current working directory has the same name as a pseudo-command in the sudoers file and the PATH contains an entry for ".", which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a Trojan horse executable, as demonstrated using sudoedit, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0426.

Affected products

• Todd Miller Sudo: version 1.6.8 only; version 1.6.8_p1 only; version 1.6.8_p2 only; version 1.6.8_p5 only; version 1.6.8_p7 only; version 1.6.8_p8 only; …

Published 2010-04-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.