In Sudo through 1.8.29, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can impersonate a nonexistent user by invoking sudo with a numeric uid that is not associated with any user. NOTE: The software maintainer believes that this is not a vulnerability because running a command via sudo as a user not present in the local password database is an intentional feature. Because this behavior surprised some users, sudo 1.8.30 introduced an option to enable/disable this behavior with the default being disabled. However, this does not change the fact that sudo was behaving as intended, and as documented, in earlier versions
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Osx Sudo | — | Upgrade macOS to the latest version | Mar 25, 2020 | Dec 19, 2019 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade sudo-debugsourceUpgrade sudo-debuginfoUpgrade sudo | Apr 29, 2020 | Dec 19, 2019 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade sudo | Jul 30, 2024 | Dec 19, 2019 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp2 | — | Upgrade sudo | Jun 17, 2020 | Dec 19, 2019 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp3 | — | Upgrade sudo | Apr 16, 2020 | Dec 19, 2019 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp5 | — | Upgrade sudo | Feb 24, 2020 | Dec 19, 2019 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp8 | — | Upgrade sudo | Feb 26, 2020 | Dec 19, 2019 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade security/sudo to version 1.8.30-11.4.20.0.1.1.0 on Solaris 11.4 | Jan 19, 2021 | Dec 19, 2019 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade sudo | Jul 22, 2024 | Dec 19, 2019 |
| Redhat Openshift | — | Upgrade redhat-coreos | Dec 29, 2020 | Dec 19, 2019 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade sudoUpgrade sudo-debuginfoNo solution existsUpgrade sudo-debugsource | Apr 29, 2020 | Dec 19, 2019 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade sudo | Nov 19, 2024 | Dec 19, 2019 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Jan 20, 2025 | Dec 19, 2019 |
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