CVE-2017-1000367

Public on 2017-06-05
Modified on 2019-10-14
Description
A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root.
Severity
Important severity
Important
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.8
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 sudo 2017-06-06 ALAS-2017-843 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core sudo 2019-10-11 ALAS2-2019-1315 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 6.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 6.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C