CVE-2016-7091

medium

Published 2016-12-22 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

4.4

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.4

Description

sudo: It was discovered that the default sudo configuration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and possibly other Linux implementations preserves the value of INPUTRC which could lead to information disclosure. A local user with sudo access to a restricted program that uses readline could use this flaw to read content from specially formatted files with elevated privileges provided by sudo.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

44%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Red Hat Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
7.0	Affected	—
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0`
sid	Fixed	`0`
forky	Fixed	`0`
bullseye	Fixed	`0`
bookworm	Fixed	`0`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.