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GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2023-25

GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2023-25
Advisory Published
Vulnetix · Advisory published January 24, 2023
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. (CVE-2023-22809)

Affected Products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Mageialibheif0 (affected), 0 (affected), 1.10.0-1.1.mga8.tainted (unaffected), 1.10.0-1.1.mga8 (unaffected)
Mageiasudo0 (affected), 1.9.5p2-2.2.mga8 (unaffected), 0 (affected), * (unaffected)

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