CVE-2005-4890
Estado: ModificadaAlta (7.8)—
There is a possible tty hijacking in shadow 4.x before 4.1.5 and sudo 1.x before 1.7.4 via "su - user -c program". The user session can be escaped to the parent session by using the TIOCSTI ioctl to push characters into the input buffer to be read by the next process.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Puntuación base: 7.8
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.63%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 48
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (4)
CWE
- CWE-20
Referencias
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/06/8
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/20/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/28/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/29/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/20/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/21/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/15/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/25/6
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-4890
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2005-4890
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-4890
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/06/8
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/20/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/28/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/29/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/20/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/21/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/15/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/25/6
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-4890
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2005-4890
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-4890
JSON original (NVD)
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