An issue was discovered in Hashicorp Packer before 2.3.1. The recommended sudoers configuration for Vagrant on Linux is insecure. If the host has been configured according to this documentation non-privileged users on the host can leverage a wildcard in the sudoers configuration to execute arbitrary commands as root.

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AZL-11115 CVE-2022-42717 affecting package packer for versions less than 1.8.7-1

An issue was discovered in Hashicorp Packer before 2.3.1. The recommended sudoers configuration for Vagrant on Linux is insecure. If the host has been configured according to this documentation, non-privileged users on the host can leverage a wildcard in the sudoers configuration to execute...