CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-12937
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-06-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
apps/gsudo.c in gsudo in ToaruOS through 1.10.9 has a buffer overflow allowing local privilege escalation to the root user via the DISPLAY environment variable.
Affected configurations
• toaruos project toaruos (<= 1.10.9)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://github.com/mehsauce/kowasuos/blob/master/exploits/kowasu-gsudo.c Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mehsauce/kowasuos/blob/master/exploits/kowasu-gsudo.c Exploit, Third Party Advisory