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CVE-2023-42465 Details

Description

Sudo before 1.9.15 might allow row hammer attacks (for authentication bypass or privilege escalation) because application logic sometimes is based on not equaling an error value (instead of equaling a success value), and because the values do not resist flips of a single bit.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02545	CVE	Technical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/7873f8334c8d31031f8cfa83bd97ac6029309e4f	CVE	Patch
https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/releases/tag/SUDO_1_9_15	CVE	Release Notes
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R4Q23NHCKCLFIHSNY6KJ27GM7FSCEVXM/	CVE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6XMRUJCPII4MPWG43HTYR76DGLEYEFZ/	CVE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/R4Q23NHCKCLFIHSNY6KJ27GM7FSCEVXM/	CVE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/U6XMRUJCPII4MPWG43HTYR76DGLEYEFZ/	CVE
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-29	CVE
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240208-0002/	CVE
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/9	CVE	ExploitMailing List
https://www.sudo.ws/releases/changelog/	CVE	Release Notes
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/23/2	CVE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/24/6	CVE
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02545	[email protected]	Technical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/7873f8334c8d31031f8cfa83bd97ac6029309e4f	[email protected]	Patch
https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/releases/tag/SUDO_1_9_15	[email protected]	Release Notes
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R4Q23NHCKCLFIHSNY6KJ27GM7FSCEVXM/	[email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6XMRUJCPII4MPWG43HTYR76DGLEYEFZ/	[email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-29	[email protected]
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240208-0002/	[email protected]
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/9	[email protected]	ExploitMailing List
https://www.sudo.ws/releases/changelog/	[email protected]	Release Notes

see all 22 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
NVD-CWE-noinfo	Insufficient Information to Classify Weakness	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
sudo project sudo	< 1.9.15
CPE cpe:2.3:a:sudo_project:sudo:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

11 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 4, 2025	CVE Modified	CVE
Nov 4, 2025	CVE Modified	CVE
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 18, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 8, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jan 28, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jan 24, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jan 3, 2024	Initial Analysis	[email protected]
Dec 22, 2023	New CVE Received	[email protected]