sudo: LPE via host option

A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in Sudo. In certain configurations, unauthorized users can gain elevated system privileges via the Sudo host option -h or --host. When using the default sudo security policy plugin sudoers, the host option is intended to be used in conjunction with t...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-7604-1)

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CVE-2025-32462

CVE-2025-32462 affects sudo prior to 1.9.17p1. When used with a sudoers entry that specifies a host neither the current host nor ALL, listed users can execute commands on unintended machines. The Astra Linux bulletin reiterates this description. Connected advisories indicate a patched version is ...

CVE-2022-29527

Amazon AWS amazon-ssm-agent before 3.1.1208.0 creates a world-writable sudoers file, which allows local attackers to inject Sudo rules and escalate privileges to root. This occurs in certain situations involving a race condition...

CVE-2013-6831

PineApp Mail-SeCure 3.70 and earlier on 5099SK and earlier platforms has a sudoers file that does not properly restrict user specifications, which allows local users to gain privileges via a sudo command that leverages access to the qmailq account...

CVE-2019-19585

An issue was discovered in rConfig 3.9.3. The install script updates the /etc/sudoers file for rconfig specific tasks. After an "rConfig specific Apache configuration" update, apache has high privileges for some binaries. This can be exploited by an attacker to bypass local security restrictions...

CVE-2019-19014

An issue was discovered in TitanHQ WebTitan before 5.18. It has a sudoers file that enables low-privilege users to execute a vast number of commands as root, including mv, chown, and chmod. This can be trivially exploited to gain root privileges by an attacker with access...

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-46718

sudo-rs is a memory safe implementation of sudo and su written in Rust. Prior to version 0.2.6, users with limited sudo privileges e.g. execution of a single command can list sudo privileges of other users using the -U flag. This vulnerability allows users with limited sudo privileges to enumerat...

Configure sudoers Audit Rules

The sudo command allows common users to perform privileged operations as the root user, which is highly risky. Though attackers cannot access the root user easily, they can escalate the privilege using the sudo command. You are advised to configure audit for the /etc/sudoers file and the...

Ensure That Scripts Writable by Low-Privilege Users Cannot Be Configured in the sudoers Configuration File

The sudo command enables a specified common user to execute certain programs with the root permission. The corresponding configuration file is /etc/sudoers. The administrator can configure rules to enable some scripts or binary files to run with the root permission. Therefore, only the root user...

CVE-2024-45173

An issue was discovered in za-internet C-MOR Video Surveillance 5.2401. Due to improper privilege management concerning sudo privileges, C-MOR is vulnerable to a privilege escalation attack. The Linux user www-data running the C-MOR web interface can execute some OS commands as root via Sudo...

Add user with useradd

Creates a new user. By default the new user is set with sudo but other options exist to make the new user automatically root but this is not automatically set since the new user will be treated as root and login may be difficult. The new user can also be set as just a standard user if desired...

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...

sudo 1.8.0 to 1.9.12p1 - Privilege Escalation

!/usr/bin/env bash Exploit Title: sudo 1.8.0 to 1.9.12p1 - Privilege Escalation Exploit Author: n3m1.sys CVE: CVE-2023-22809 Date: 2023/01/21 Vendor Homepage: https://www.sudo.ws/ Software Link: https://www.sudo.ws/dist/sudo-1.9.12p1.tar.gz Version: 1.8.0 to 1.9.12p1 Tested on: Ubuntu Server 22.0...

sudo 1.8.0 to 1.9.12p1 - Privilege Escalation Exploit

!/usr/bin/env bash Exploit Title: sudo 1.8.0 to 1.9.12p1 - Privilege Escalation Exploit Author: n3m1.sys CVE: CVE-2023-22809 Date: 2023/01/21 Vendor Homepage: https://www.sudo.ws/ Software Link: https://www.sudo.ws/dist/sudo-1.9.12p1.tar.gz Version: 1.8.0 to 1.9.12p1 Tested on: Ubuntu Server 22.0...

sudo 1.9.12p1 Privilege Escalation

!/usr/bin/env bash Exploit Title: sudo 1.8.0 to 1.9.12p1 - Privilege Escalation Exploit Author: n3m1.sys CVE: CVE-2023-22809 Date: 2023/01/21 Vendor Homepage: https://www.sudo.ws/ Software Link: https://www.sudo.ws/dist/sudo-1.9.12p1.tar.gz Version: 1.8.0 to 1.9.12p1 Tested on: Ubuntu Server 22.0...

SUSE CVE-2005-1993

Race condition in sudo 1.3.1 up to 1.6.8p8, when the ALL pseudo-command is used after a user entry in the sudoers file, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack...

SUSE CVE-2007-0472

Multiple race conditions in Smb4K before 0.8.0 allow local users to 1 modify arbitrary files via unspecified manipulations of Smb4K's lock file, which is not properly handled by the removelockfile function in core/smb4kfileio.cpp, and 2 add lines to the sudoers file via a symlink attack on...

SUSE CVE-2007-0473

The writeFile function in core/smb4kfileio.cpp in Smb4K before 0.8.0 does not preserve /etc/sudoers permissions across modifications, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information /etc/sudoers contents by reading this file...

SUSE CVE-2009-0034

parse.c in sudo 1.6.9p17 through 1.6.9p19 does not properly interpret a system group aka %group in the sudoers file during authorization decisions for a user who belongs to that group, which allows local users to leverage an applicable sudoers file and gain root privileges via a sudo command...