CVE-2014-9680: Sudo Project Sudo

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sudo before 1.8.12 does not ensure that the TZ environment variable is associated with a zoneinfo file, which allows local users to open arbitrary files for read access (but not view file contents) by running a program within an sudo session, as demonstrated by interfering with terminal output, discarding kernel-log messages, or repositioning tape drives.

Affected products

• Sudo Project Sudo: up to and including 1.8.11

Published 2017-04-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.