csaf_redhat - rhsa-2023

rhsa-2023_3264

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat

Published

2023-05-23 09:28

Modified

2024-12-16 03:13

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: sudo security update

Notes

Topic

An update for sudo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Details

The sudo packages contain the sudo utility which allows system administrators to provide certain users with the permission to execute privileged commands, which are used for system management purposes, without having to log in as root. Security Fix(es): * sudo: arbitrary file write with privileges of the RunAs user (CVE-2023-22809) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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cve-2023-22809

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2023-01-18 00:00

Modified

2024-08-02 10:20

Severity ?

Summary

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.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://www.synacktiv.com/sites/default/files/2023-01/sudo-CVE-2023-22809.pdf
	https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/sudoedit_any/
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00012.html	mailing-list
	https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5321	vendor-advisory
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/01/19/1	mailing-list
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2QDGFCGAV5QRJCE6IXRXIS4XJHS57DDH/	vendor-advisory
	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230127-0015/
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G4YNBTTKTRT2ME3NTSXAPTOKYUE47XHZ/	vendor-advisory
	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171644/sudo-1.9.12p1-Privilege-Escalation.html
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-12	vendor-advisory
	https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213758
	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172509/Sudoedit-Extra-Arguments-Privilege-Escalation.html
	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Aug/21	mailing-list
	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174234/Cisco-ThousandEyes-Enterprise-Agent-Virtual-Appliance-Arbitrary-File-Modification.html

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