CVE-2023-7090
Sudo: improper handling of ipa_hostname leads to privilege mismanagement
02 Description
Sudo: improper handling of ipa_hostname leads to privilege mismanagement
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.68% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 52.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2023-12-23 22:33Z2 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-02 08:50Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2023-12-23
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 6.6)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269Improper Privilege ManagementClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 8dc285d078df09f2222619c1bdb48b60739138c7b6d71da58520727d8b33a1a7
05 Affected products
06 References
- access.redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-7090
- bugzilla.redhat.comRHBZ#2255723https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255723
- lists.debian.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/02/msg00002.html
- security.netapp.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240208-0001/
- www.sudo.wshttps://www.sudo.ws/releases/legacy/#1.8.28
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- sudo Fixed in 1.8.28p1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- sudo Fixed in 1.8.28p1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- sudo Fixed in 1.8.28p1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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