CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-82474
8.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-08-29
- Last modified
- 2026-09-10
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 8.5 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-693
Description
Sudo through 1.9.17p2 fails to apply intercept policy checks to the execveat system call in ptrace-based intercept mode. Users permitted to run specific commands can execute denied programs by calling execveat directly or through fexecve, bypassing policy enforcement and logging.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure weakness
References
- https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo github.com
- https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/blob/v1.9.17p2/src/exec_ptrace.c github.com
- https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/71fbe42dcd5a1c8f799540583a2dfb2ae6221edf github.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sudo-through-1.9-17p2-intercept-policy-bypass-via-execveat www.vulncheck.com