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High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Nov 4, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-18684

CVE-2019-18684

Description

Sudo through 1.8.29 allows local users to escalate to root if they have write access to file descriptor 3 of the sudo process. This occurs because of a race condition between determining a uid, and the setresuid and openat system calls. The attacker can write "ALL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" to /proc/#####/fd/3 at a time when Sudo is prompting for a password. NOTE: This has been disputed due to the way Linux /proc works. It has been argued that writing to /proc/#####/fd/3 would only be viable if you had permission to write to /etc/sudoers. Even with write permission to /proc/#####/fd/3, it would not help you write to /etc/sudoers

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Affected products

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  • Sudo Project/Sudo2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:sudo_project:sudo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:sudo_project:sudo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=1.8.29
    • (no CPE)range: <=1.8.29
  • Sudo/Sudodescription

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