CVE detail

CVE-2021-3156 — Sudo Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Published 2022-04-06 · Modified 2022-04-06 · Source kev

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

n/a

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.9929

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

100.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

LISTED

CISA KEV

due 2022-04-27

Description

Sudo contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows for privilege escalation.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

NVD entry ↗
CVE.org record ↗

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