CVE-2013-2777 Privilege escalation in n/a

Medium 4.4 Published Updated

Local users with sudo permissions can hijack another terminal's authorization to escalate privileges when tty_tickets is enabled.

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

What is CVE-2013-2777?

CVE-2013-2777 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 8 Apr 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-2777?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Todd Miller Sudo.

How do I fix CVE-2013-2777?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2013-2777 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-2777 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Apple Mac Os X vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2777, GHSA-qjfx-m5pf-3ccg.

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