Summary In the "Debian.sudoers" (https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/blob/main/assets/sudoers/Debian.sudoers) file, "apt-get" is allowed for the nagios user. The full command including the arguments are not enforced and can therefore be choosen arbitrarily. This allows to easily get a root shell as the nagios user: PoC By choosing a particular argument, you can get (as a nagios user) a root shell: sudo apt-get update -o APT::Update::Pre-Invoke::="/bin/sh" Since the nagious user can use sudo to run apt-get as root, the resulting shell is also running as root. Impact The vulnerability is a local privilege escalation, impacting users who use the provided sudoers file. It requires that an attacker already compromised the nagios account (which is quite a high barrier to be honest). Fix Since only one place where "apt-get" is currently used (in "deb-updates" (https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/blob/998302a5fb43e89df1359f4cbb6558f81c96ae4f/check-plugins/deb-updates/deb-updates#L124)) was found, it should be enough to allow only the specific arguments used there. Here an example how the line in the sudoers file could look like: /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/strongswan-connections, /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/systemd-unit, /usr/bin/apt-get update --quiet 2