cve-2023-26604
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-03-03 00:00
Modified
2025-03-07 18:16
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
systemd before 247 does not adequately block local privilege escalation for some Sudo configurations, e.g., plausible sudoers files in which the "systemctl status" command may be executed. Specifically, systemd does not set LESSSECURE to 1, and thus other programs may be launched from the less program. This presents a substantial security risk when running systemctl from Sudo, because less executes as root when the terminal size is too small to show the complete systemctl output.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174130/systemd-246-Local-Root-Privilege-Escalation.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://blog.compass-security.com/2012/10/dangerous-sudoers-entries-part-2-insecure-functionality/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/NEWS#L4335-L4340Release Notes
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00032.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://medium.com/%40zenmoviefornotification/saidov-maxim-cve-2023-26604-c1232a526ba7
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230505-0009/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174130/systemd-246-Local-Root-Privilege-Escalation.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blog.compass-security.com/2012/10/dangerous-sudoers-entries-part-2-insecure-functionality/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/NEWS#L4335-L4340Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00032.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://medium.com/%40zenmoviefornotification/saidov-maxim-cve-2023-26604-c1232a526ba7
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230505-0009/
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