sudo: arbitrary file write with privileges of the RunAs user

A vulnerability was found in sudo. Exposure in how sudoedit handles user-provided environment variables leads to arbitrary file writing with privileges of the RunAs user usually root. The prerequisite for exploitation is that the current user must be authorized by the sudoers policy to edit a fil...

Sudoedit Extra Arguments Privilege Escalation Exploit

This exploit takes advantage of a vulnerability in sudoedit, part of the sudo package. The sudoedit aka sudo -e feature mishandles extra arguments passed in the user-provided environment variables SUDOEDITOR, VISUAL, and EDITOR, allowing a local attacker to append arbitrary entries to the list of...

Sudoedit Extra Arguments Privilege Escalation

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Sudoedit Extra Arguments Priv Esc', 'Description' = %q This exploit takes advantage of a vulnerability in sudoedit, part of the sudo package. The...

EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : sudo (EulerOS-SA-2023-1941)

According to the versions of the sudo package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Sudo 1.8.0 through 1.9.12, with the crypt password backend, contains a plugins/sudoers/auth/passwd.c array-out-of-bounds error that...

sudo: Root Privilege Escalation

Background sudo allows a system administrator to give users the ability to run commands as other users. Description The sudoedit aka -e feature mishandles extra arguments passed in the user-provided environment variables SUDOEDITOR, VISUAL, and EDITOR, allowing a local attacker to append arbitrar...

sudo: arbitrary file write with privileges of the RunAs user

A vulnerability was found in sudo. Exposure in how sudoedit handles user-provided environment variables leads to arbitrary file writing with privileges of the RunAs user usually root. The prerequisite for exploitation is that the current user must be authorized by the sudoers policy to edit a fil...

SUSE CVE-2010-1163

The command matching functionality in sudo 1.6.8 through 1.7.2p5 does not properly handle when a file in the current working directory has the same name as a pseudo-command in the sudoers file and the PATH contains an entry for ".", which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a...

SUSE CVE-2015-5602

sudoedit in Sudo before 1.8.15 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file whose full path is defined using multiple wildcards in /etc/sudoers, as demonstrated by "/home///file.txt."...

SUSE CVE-2021-3156

Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character...

SUSE CVE-2021-23239

The sudoedit personality of Sudo before 1.9.5 may allow a local unprivileged user to perform arbitrary directory-existence tests by winning a sudoedit.c race condition in replacing a user-controlled directory by a symlink to an arbitrary path...

SUSE CVE-2021-23240

selinuxeditcopytfiles in sudoedit in Sudo before 1.9.5 allows a local unprivileged user to gain file ownership and escalate privileges by replacing a temporary file with a symlink to an arbitrary file target. This affects SELinux RBAC support in permissive mode. Machines without SELinux are not...

CLSA-2023-1675986271 sudo: Fix of CVE-2023-22809

CVE-2023-22809: do not permit editor arguments to include "--" for sudoedit - build tests have been enabled...

sudo: Fix of CVE-2023-22809

CVE-2023-22809: do not permit editor arguments to include "--" for sudoedit - build tests have been enabled...

CLSA-2023-1675985571 sudo: Fix of CVE-2023-22809

CVE-2023-22809: do not permit editor arguments to include "--" for sudoedit - build tests have been enabled...

Important: sudo

Issue Overview: In Sudo before 1.9.12p2, the sudoedit aka -e feature mishandles extra arguments passed in the user-provided environment variables SUDOEDITOR, VISUAL, and EDITOR, allowing a local attacker to append arbitrary entries to the list of files to process. This can lead to privilege...

OESA-2023-1049 sudo security update

Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done. Security Fixes: In Sudo before 1.9.12p2, the sudoedit aka -e feature mishandl...

USN-5811-3 sudo vulnerability

USN-5811-1 fixed a vulnerability in Sudo. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Matthieu Barjole and Victor Cutillas discovered that Sudo incorrectly handled user-specified editors when using the sudoedit command. A local attacker that has...

CentOS 7 : sudo (RHSA-2023:0291)

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:0291 advisory. - In Sudo before 1.9.12p2, the sudoedit aka -e feature mishandles extra arguments passed in the user- provided environment variables SUDOEDITOR, VISUAL, and...

Oracle Linux 8 : sudo (ELSA-2023-0284)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-0284 advisory. 1.8.29.8.1 RHEL 8.7.0.Z ERRATUM - CVE-2023-22809 sudo: arbitrary file write with privileges of the RunAs user Resolves: rhbz2161220 Tenable has extracted the...

sudo: arbitrary file write with privileges of the RunAs user

A vulnerability was found in sudo. Exposure in how sudoedit handles user-provided environment variables leads to arbitrary file writing with privileges of the RunAs user usually root. The prerequisite for exploitation is that the current user must be authorized by the sudoers policy to edit a fil...