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CVE-2023-22809

high 7.8

In Sudo before 1.9.12p2, the sudoedit (aka -e) feature mishandles extra arguments passed in the user-provided environment variables (SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL, and EDITOR), allowing a local attacker to append arbitrary entries to the list of files to process. This can lead to privilege escalation. Affected versions are 1.8.0 through 1.9.12.p1. The problem exists because a user-specified editor may contain a "--" argument that defeats a protection mechanism, e.g., an EDITOR='vim -- /path/to/extra/file' value.

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Details

Status
Modified
Published
Last changed
Source
cve@mitre.org
Weakness
CWE-269

Severity

VersionScoreVectorSource
CVSS 3.1 high 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H nvd@nist.govPrimary
CVSS 3.1 high 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0Secondary

Affected products

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