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HistoryJan 18, 2023 - 5:15 p.m.

CVE-2023-22809

2023-01-1817:15:10
Debian Security Bug Tracker
security-tracker.debian.org
38

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

19.0%

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.