GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-c978-wq47-pvvw sudo-rs: Partial password reveal is possible after timeout
LOW
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-64170
- Ecosystem
- crates.io
- Packages
- sudo-rs
- Severity
- Low
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-549
- Reviewed
- 2025-11-12
Affected packages
• crates.io sudo-rs: >= 0.2.7, < 0.2.10 → fixed in 0.2.10
Description
Summary
If a user begins entering a password but does not press return for an extended period, a password timeout may occur. When this happens, the keystrokes that were entered are echoed back to the console.
Example
Using sudo-rs:
```
geiger@cerberus:~$ sudo -s
[sudo: authenticate] Password: sudo-rs: timed out
geiger@cerberus:~$ testtesttest
```
"testtesttest" was entered at the password prompt but not confirmed by pressing return and then waiting for the timeout.
Impact
This could reveal partial password information, possibly exposing history files when not carefully handled by the user and on screen, usable for Social Engineering or Pass-By attacks.
Versions affected
Passwords timeouts were added in sudo-rs 0.2.7 (with a default set to 5 minutes).
Credits
This issue was discovered and reported by @DevLaTron.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-64170 sudo-rs is a memory safe implementation of sudo and su written in Rust. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-549 Missing Password Field Masking weakness
References
- https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-c978-wq47-pvvw web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64170 advisory
- https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs/commit/0e3d3837aec3ee9fb5dcb8bfe11e8adb367f58f4 web
- https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs package
- https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs/releases/tag/v0.2.10 web