CVE-2012-2337
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
sudo 1.6.x and 1.7.x before 1.7.9p1, and 1.8.x before 1.8.4p5, does not properly support configurations that use a netmask syntax, which allows local users to bypass intended command restrictions in opportunistic circumstances by executing a command on a host that has an IPv4 address.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (34th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-2330)
- Published
- May 18, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-2330 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
- todd miller / sudo
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/081432.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49219
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49244
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49291
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49948
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2478
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:079
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027077
- http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/netmask.html(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820677
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2337/
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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