CVE-2023-26604CWE-269privilege-escalation

CVE-2023-26604

High · published March 3, 2023

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
64.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

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
0.01051 · 64.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
Published
2023-03-03T21:15Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
debian/debian_linuxall versions—
systemd_project/systemd< 246.7246.7
References (13)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 MAR 00:00Z
    systemd before 247 does not adequately block local privilege escalation for some Sudo configurations, e.g., plausible sudoers files in which the "systemctl…
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