🛡️ DEBIAN-CVE-2023-22809
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

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.

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-01-18
Updated 2026-06-14
Modified 2026-06-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
sudo — 1.9.12p2-1

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