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Vulnerability · Published Dec 23, 2023 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2023-7090Sudo: improper handling of ipa_hostname leads to privilege mismanagement

Medium 6.6

In plain English

A medium-severity privilege mismanagement in Fedora from Fedora. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 53% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.6Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 47.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in sudo in the handling of ipa_hostname, where ipa_hostname from /etc/sssd/sssd.conf was not propagated in sudo. Therefore, it leads to privilege mismanagement vulnerability in applications, where client hosts retain privileges even after retracting them.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12sudo1.8.28p1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-7090
Debian:13sudo1.8.28p1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-7090
Debian:14sudo1.8.28p1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-7090
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSsudo1.9.9-1ubuntu2.4UBUNTU-CVE-2023-7090

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a sudo see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 see references
Fedora Fedora see references
Fedora Fedora see references

Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

References