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.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2023-01-18T00:00:00
Updated: 2023-09-06T07:06:47.365601
Reserved: 2023-01-06T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2023-22809
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2023-01-18T17:15:10.353
Modified: 2023-11-17T19:32:56.817
Link: CVE-2023-22809
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