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
2026-03-15T22:46:27.045909Z
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"
        }
    ]
}

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"
            }
        ]
    }
]