CVE-2013-2777: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sudo before 1.7.10p5 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6p6, when the tty_tickets option is enabled, does not properly validate the controlling terminal device, which allows local users with sudo permissions to hijack the authorization of another terminal via vectors related to a session without a controlling terminal device and connecting to the standard input, output, and error file descriptors of another terminal. NOTE: this is one of three closely-related vulnerabilities that were originally assigned CVE-2013-1776, but they have been SPLIT because of different affected versions.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.10.4
• Todd Miller Sudo: up to and including 1.7.10p4; version 1.3.5 only; version 1.6 only; version 1.6.1 only; version 1.6.2 only; version 1.6.2p3 only; …

Published 2013-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.