Improper Privilege Management Affecting sudo package, versions <1.8.27-1+deb10u6
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (24th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-SUDO-6139224
- published 24 Dec 2023
- disclosed 23 Dec 2023
Introduced: 23 Dec 2023
CVE-2023-7090 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
sudo
to version 1.8.27-1+deb10u6 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sudo
package and not the sudo
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
relevant fixed versions and status.
A flaw was found in sudo in the handling of ipa_hostname, where ipa_hostname from /etc/sssd/sssd.conf was not propagated in sudo. Therefore, it leads to privilege mismanagement vulnerability in applications, where client hosts retain privileges even after retracting them.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-7090
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-7090
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255723
- https://www.sudo.ws/releases/legacy/#1.8.28
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/02/msg00002.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240208-0001/