🛡️ ALPINE-CVE-2022-43995
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Sudo 1.8.0 through 1.9.12, with the crypt() password backend, contains a plugins/sudoers/auth/passwd.c array-out-of-bounds error that can result in a heap-based buffer over-read. This can be triggered by arbitrary local users with access to Sudo by entering a password of seven characters or fewer. The impact could vary depending on the system libraries, compiler, and processor architecture.

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-11-02
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-11-19
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
sudo 1.9.12-r1

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