DEBIAN-CVE-2023-22809

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-22809
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Upstream
Published
2023-01-18T17:15:10Z
Modified
2025-09-19T07:33:13.325343Z
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

Debian:11 / sudo

Package

Name
sudo
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sudo?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.9.5p2-3+deb11u1

Affected versions

1.*

1.9.5p2-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / sudo

Package

Name
sudo
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sudo?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.9.12p2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / sudo

Package

Name
sudo
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sudo?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.9.12p2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / sudo

Package

Name
sudo
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/sudo?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.9.12p2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}