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CVE-2019-14287

Public on 2019-10-11
Modified on 2019-10-14
Description

A flaw was found in the way sudo implemented running commands with arbitrary user ID. If a sudoers entry is written to allow the attacker to run a command as any user except root, this flaw can be used by the attacker to bypass that restriction.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 sudo 2019-10-12 15:49 ALAS-2019-1309
Amazon Linux 2 - Core sudo 2019-10-11 22:07 ALAS2-2019-1315

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H