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8 vulnerabilities found for sudo by sudo_project
CVE-2025-32463 (GCVE-0-2025-32463)
Vulnerability from nvd
Published
2025-06-30 00:00
Modified
2025-10-21 22:45
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-829 - Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
Summary
Sudo before 1.9.17p1 allows local users to obtain root access because /etc/nsswitch.conf from a user-controlled directory is used with the --chroot option.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| Sudo project | Sudo |
Version: 1.9.14 < 1.9.17p1 |
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CVE-2025-32462 (GCVE-0-2025-32462)
Vulnerability from nvd
Published
2025-06-30 00:00
Modified
2025-11-03 19:53
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Summary
Sudo before 1.9.17p1, when used with a sudoers file that specifies a host that is neither the current host nor ALL, allows listed users to execute commands on unintended machines.
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Impacted products
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| Sudo project | Sudo |
Version: 1.8.8 < 1.9.17p1 |
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CVE-2023-42465 (GCVE-0-2023-42465)
Vulnerability from nvd
Published
2023-12-22 00:00
Modified
2025-11-04 21:08
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
Sudo before 1.9.15 might allow row hammer attacks (for authentication bypass or privilege escalation) because application logic sometimes is based on not equaling an error value (instead of equaling a success value), and because the values do not resist flips of a single bit.
References
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CVE-2021-3156 (GCVE-0-2021-3156)
Vulnerability from nvd
Published
2021-01-26 00:00
Modified
2025-10-21 23:35
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character.
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CVE-2025-32463 (GCVE-0-2025-32463)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-30 00:00
Modified
2025-10-21 22:45
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-829 - Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
Summary
Sudo before 1.9.17p1 allows local users to obtain root access because /etc/nsswitch.conf from a user-controlled directory is used with the --chroot option.
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CVE-2025-32462 (GCVE-0-2025-32462)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-30 00:00
Modified
2025-11-03 19:53
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Summary
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CVE-2023-42465 (GCVE-0-2023-42465)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-12-22 00:00
Modified
2025-11-04 21:08
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
Sudo before 1.9.15 might allow row hammer attacks (for authentication bypass or privilege escalation) because application logic sometimes is based on not equaling an error value (instead of equaling a success value), and because the values do not resist flips of a single bit.
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CVE-2021-3156 (GCVE-0-2021-3156)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-01-26 00:00
Modified
2025-10-21 23:35
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
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