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CVE-2019-19232

Published: 2019-12-19T21:15Z
Last Modified: 2024-11-21T04:34Z
Source: MITRE CVE List
License: MITRE-CVE-TOS
In Sudo through 1.8.29, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can impersonate a nonexistent user by invoking sudo with a numeric uid that is not associated with any user. NOTE: The software maintainer believes that this is not a vulnerability because running a command via sudo as a user not present in the local password database is an intentional feature. Because this behavior surprised some users, sudo 1.8.30 introduced an option to enable/disable this behavior with the default being disabled. However, this does not change the fact that sudo was behaving as intended, and as documented, in earlier versions > MITRE Terms of Use apply – see LICENSE‑MITRE.txt