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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-19232: sudo: attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can impersonate a nonexistent user

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-19232: sudo: attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can impersonate a nonexistent user

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/19/2019
Created
12/30/2020
Added
12/29/2020
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

References

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