CVE-2019-18684

HIGH

Sudo <1.8.29 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Sudo through 1.8.29 allows local users to escalate to root if they have write access to file descriptor 3 of the sudo process. This occurs because of a race condition between determining a uid, and the setresuid and openat system calls. The attacker can write "ALL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" to /proc/#####/fd/3 at a time when Sudo is prompting for a password. NOTE: This has been disputed due to the way Linux /proc works. It has been argued that writing to /proc/#####/fd/3 would only be viable if you had permission to write to /etc/sudoers. Even with write permission to /proc/#####/fd/3, it would not help you write to /etc/sudoers

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gist.github.com/oxagast/51171aa161074188a11d96cbef884bbd

Scores

CVSS v3 7.0
EPSS 0.0029
EPSS Percentile 20.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (1)
sudo_project/sudo < 1.8.29
Published Nov 04, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026