CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-26604

7.8 HIGH Published 2023-03-03 Modified 2026-10-14 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-03-03
Last modified
2026-10-14
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

systemd before 247 does not adequately block local privilege escalation for some Sudo configurations, e.g., plausible sudoers files in which the "systemctl status" command may be executed. Specifically, systemd does not set LESSSECURE to 1, and thus other programs may be launched from the less program. This presents a substantial security risk when running systemctl from Sudo, because less executes as root when the terminal size is too small to show the complete systemctl output.

Affected configurations

• debian debian linux 10.0 • systemd project systemd (< 246.7)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References