FKIE_CVE-2022-42717

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-10-11 23:15 - Updated: 2025-05-20 15:15
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-23-vagrant-nfs-sudoers-configuration-allows-for-local-privilege-escalation/45423Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/pull/12910Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.vagrantup.com/docs/synced-folders/nfsProduct
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-23-vagrant-nfs-sudoers-configuration-allows-for-local-privilege-escalation/45423Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/pull/12910Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/synced-folders/nfsProduct
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
hashicorp vagrant *
linux linux_kernel -
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  "lastModified": "2025-05-20T15:15:51.453",
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