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CVE-2022-43995

Date: November 2, 2022

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.1

Related Resources (8)

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-08

Url: https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2139911

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-43995

Url: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/bd209b9f16fcd1270c13db27ae3329c677d48050

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-43995

Url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33465707

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2022-43995

Severity Score

7.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.1
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

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CVE-2022-43995

Date: November 2, 2022

Language: C

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Weakness Type (CWE)

CVSS v3.1

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