CVE-2015-5602

Exp

sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers, as demonstrated by "/home/*/*/file.txt."

Published: 2015-11-17 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2015-5602 is rated High Exploit Risk (64.3/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.46%). 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2015-5602

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
37710 exploit_db edb 2015-07-28 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-5602

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 5.51% 1.46% -4.05%
2 2026-01-08 6.10% 5.51% -0.60%
3 2025-03-30 — 6.10% —

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-5602

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.2 2.0 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
 3.9 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-5602

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-5602

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2015-5602 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (sudo), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5602
gentoo normal CVE-2015-5602: 1 GLSA(s) (201606-13), 1 atom(s) (app-admin/sudo); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2015-5602
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5602
ubuntu medium CVE-2015-5602 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (sudo), 14 status rows across 14 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 9, ignored 4, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5602

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-5602

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
sudo_project sudo <= 1.8.14 cpe:2.3:a:sudo_project:sudo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-5602

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