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Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package sudo  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-SUDO-12325369
  • published1 Sept 2025
  • disclosed18 Jan 2023
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Introduced: 18 Jan 2023

CVE-2023-22809  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sudo package and not the sudo package as distributed by RHEL.

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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