On 4/12/19 5:56 PM, Vladimir Marek wrote:
> It escapes me how changing your own $PATH makes another user execute
> files in /tmp. And if someone has /tmp in $PATH moreover before anything
> else (or . for that matter) he deserves it. Right?

I assume the idea is to escalate write access to another user's account,
to password-guarded sudo access. And yes, that too means you're already
screwed in many, many ways. There are far too many ways to trick a user
into entering their login password in order to grab sudo credentials.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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