🛡️ CVE-2023-42465
🟠 CVSS 7.0 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public NVD
7.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-12-22
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-11-04

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
sudo — 1.9.15

References

Technical Description, Third Party Advisory https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02545
Technical Description, Third Party Advisory https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02545

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