CVE-2019-19232

published 2019-12-19

CVE-2019-19232: 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…

Priority P3 47 high 7.5 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C N I H A N

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

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	sudo	< sudo 1.8.31-1 (bookworm)	sudo 1.8.31-1 (bookworm)
sudo	sudo	<= 1.8.29	—
sudo_project	sudo	>= 0 < 1.8.31-1	1.8.31-1
sudo_project	sudo	>= 0 < 1.8.31-1	1.8.31-1
sudo_project	sudo	>= 0 < 1.8.31-1	1.8.31-1
sudo_project	sudo	>= 0 < 1.8.31-1	1.8.31-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv 7.5 HIGH

vendor_debian 7.5 LOW

vendor_redhat 7.5 HIGH

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