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CVE-2005-4890

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.63%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2019-11-04 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2005-4890
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.63%

Original NVD Description

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.

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