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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 19, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-19232

CVE-2019-19232

Description

In Sudo through 1.8.29, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can impersonate a nonexistent user by invoking sudo with a numeric uid that is not associated with any user. NOTE: The software maintainer believes that this is not a vulnerability because running a command via sudo as a user not present in the local password database is an intentional feature. Because this behavior surprised some users, sudo 1.8.30 introduced an option to enable/disable this behavior with the default being disabled. However, this does not change the fact that sudo was behaving as intended, and as documented, in earlier versions

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Affected products

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

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