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CVE-2023-22809
CVE-2023-22809
(Last updated November 18, 2023) ▾
MITRE ATT&CK
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Metasploit Module
Description
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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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Data provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Base Score:
7.8 High
Impact Score:
5.9
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
High
Integrity (I):
High
Availability (A):
High
General Information
Vendors
- apple,
- debian,
- fedoraproject,
- sudo project
Products
- debian linux 10.0,
- debian linux 11.0,
- fedora 36,
- fedora 37,
- macos,
- sudo,
- sudo 1.9.12
Metasploit Modules
References
Advisory
Exploit
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CVE-2023-22809-sudoedit-privesc (https://github.com/n3m1dotsys/CVE-2023-22809-sudoedit-privesc) (Added by AKB Worker)
CVE-2023-22809-sudo-POC (https://github.com/CKevens/CVE-2023-22809-sudo-POC) (Added by AKB Worker)
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