CVE-2019-19232

High

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

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductSudo
PublishedDec 19, 2019
First seenDec 19, 2019

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
sudo sudov ≤ 1.8.29—

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