QSAN Responds to CVE-2023-22809 - Sudo

Abstract

A vulnerability allows local users to conduct privilege escalation attacks via a susceptible version of QSM.

None of QSAN's products are affected by these vulnerabilities.

Applied to

Mitigation

None.

Detail

• CVE-2023-22809

  • Severity: Low

  • CVSS3 Base Score: 6.7

  • CVSS3 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • 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.

Reference

CVE-2023-22809