CVE-2011-0008: Todd Miller Sudo

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A certain Fedora patch for parse.c in sudo before 1.7.4p5-1.fc14 on Fedora 14 does not properly interpret a system group (aka %group) in the sudoers file during authorization decisions for a user who belongs to that group, which allows local users to leverage an applicable sudoers file and gain root privileges via a sudo command. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-0034 regression.

Affected products

• Todd Miller Sudo: up to and including 1.7.4p5; version 1.3.1 only; version 1.5 only; version 1.5.2 only; version 1.5.3 only; version 1.5.6 only; …

Published 2011-01-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.