CVE-2023-22809

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22809
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-22809.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-22809
Downstream
Related
Published
2023-01-18T17:15:10.353Z
Modified
2026-04-02T08:47:45.734853Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/millert/sudo

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/millert/sudo
Events
Introduced
4333b06914558093a327ee445699c479a57933a4
Fixed
c684bf08307b3270a62f2130bafb37c36aa3c99e
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
c684bf08307b3270a62f2130bafb37c36aa3c99e
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
7a103879a054ec428dd8ed9b4cee8077102900ec
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.8.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.9.12"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.9.12-NA"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.9.12-p1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
SUDO_1_3_0
SUDO_1_3_1
SUDO_1_4_0
SUDO_1_5_0
SUDO_1_5_1
SUDO_1_5_2
SUDO_1_5_3
SUDO_1_5_4
SUDO_1_5_6
SUDO_1_5_7
SUDO_1_5_8
SUDO_1_5_9
SUDO_1_6_0
SUDO_1_6_1
SUDO_1_6_2
SUDO_1_6_3
SUDO_1_6_4
SUDO_1_6_5
SUDO_1_6_6
SUDO_1_6_7
SUDO_1_6_8
SUDO_1_6_8p1
SUDO_1_7_0
SUDO_1_7_1
SUDO_1_7_10
SUDO_1_7_10p1
SUDO_1_7_10p2
SUDO_1_7_10p3
SUDO_1_7_10p4
SUDO_1_7_10p5
SUDO_1_7_10p6
SUDO_1_7_10p7
SUDO_1_7_10p8
SUDO_1_7_10p9
SUDO_1_7_2
SUDO_1_7_3
SUDO_1_7_4
SUDO_1_7_5
SUDO_1_7_6
SUDO_1_7_7
SUDO_1_7_8
SUDO_1_7_9
SUDO_1_7_9p1
SUDO_1_8_0
SUDO_1_8_1
SUDO_1_8_10
SUDO_1_8_10p1
SUDO_1_8_10p2
SUDO_1_8_10p3
SUDO_1_8_11
SUDO_1_8_11p1
SUDO_1_8_11p2
SUDO_1_8_12
SUDO_1_8_13
SUDO_1_8_14
SUDO_1_8_14p1
SUDO_1_8_14p3
SUDO_1_8_15
SUDO_1_8_16
SUDO_1_8_17
SUDO_1_8_17p1
SUDO_1_8_18
SUDO_1_8_18p1
SUDO_1_8_19
SUDO_1_8_19p1
SUDO_1_8_19p2
SUDO_1_8_2
SUDO_1_8_20
SUDO_1_8_20p1
SUDO_1_8_20p2
SUDO_1_8_21
SUDO_1_8_21p1
SUDO_1_8_21p2
SUDO_1_8_22
SUDO_1_8_23
SUDO_1_8_24
SUDO_1_8_25
SUDO_1_8_25p1
SUDO_1_8_26
SUDO_1_8_27
SUDO_1_8_28
SUDO_1_8_28p1
SUDO_1_8_29
SUDO_1_8_3
SUDO_1_8_30
SUDO_1_8_31
SUDO_1_8_31p1
SUDO_1_8_31p2
SUDO_1_8_32
SUDO_1_8_4
SUDO_1_8_4p1
SUDO_1_8_4p2
SUDO_1_8_4p3
SUDO_1_8_4p4
SUDO_1_8_4p5
SUDO_1_8_5
SUDO_1_8_5p1
SUDO_1_8_5p2
SUDO_1_8_5p3
SUDO_1_8_6
SUDO_1_8_6p1
SUDO_1_8_6p2
SUDO_1_8_6p3
SUDO_1_8_6p4
SUDO_1_8_6p5
SUDO_1_8_6p6
SUDO_1_8_6p7
SUDO_1_8_6p8
SUDO_1_8_7
SUDO_1_8_8
SUDO_1_8_9
SUDO_1_8_9p1
SUDO_1_8_9p2
SUDO_1_8_9p3
SUDO_1_8_9p4
SUDO_1_8_9p5
SUDO_1_9_0
SUDO_1_9_1
SUDO_1_9_10
SUDO_1_9_11
SUDO_1_9_11p1
SUDO_1_9_11p2
SUDO_1_9_11p3
SUDO_1_9_2
SUDO_1_9_3
SUDO_1_9_3p1
SUDO_1_9_4
SUDO_1_9_4p1
SUDO_1_9_4p2
SUDO_1_9_5
SUDO_1_9_5p1
SUDO_1_9_5p2
SUDO_1_9_6
SUDO_1_9_6p1
SUDO_1_9_7
SUDO_1_9_7p1
SUDO_1_9_7p2
SUDO_1_9_8
SUDO_1_9_8p1
SUDO_1_9_8p2
SUDO_1_9_9
TAG

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-22809.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "10.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "11.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "36"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "37"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "13.4"
            }
        ]
    }
]