CVE-2022-42717

An issue was discovered in Hashicorp Packer before 2.3.1

High · published October 11, 2022

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
15.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in Hashicorp Packer before 2.3.1. The recommended sudoers configuration for Vagrant on Linux is insecure. If the host has been configured according to this documentation, non-privileged users on the host can leverage a wildcard in the sudoers configuration to execute arbitrary commands as root.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00253 · 15.9th percentile
Published
2022-10-11T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 OCT 00:00Z
    An issue was discovered in Hashicorp Packer before 2.3.1
    cvelistv5