# CVE-2011-0008: Privilege escalation in n/a

> Local users can gain root privileges due to a regression in sudo's group authorization logic on Fedora 14.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.9 (`AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Jan 2011
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-p276-77q6-c7jq

## What is CVE-2011-0008?

CVE-2011-0008 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Jan 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-0008?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Todd Miller Sudo.

## How do I fix CVE-2011-0008?

No fix has been published for CVE-2011-0008 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2011-0008 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-0008 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2005-1831](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2005-1831/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 8.4)
- [CVE-2012-2337](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-2337/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2012-0809](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-0809/): Memory corruption in n/a (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2006-0151](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-0151/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2002-0043](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2002-0043/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 7.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2011-0008 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2011-0008 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Jan 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-0008 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-0008/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-0008/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-0008
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0008
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-0008

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-0008/
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