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CVE-2023-42465Sudo before 1.9.15 might allow row hammer attacks (for authentication bypass or privilege escalation) because application logic sometimes…
- 7.0HighCVSS base score
- 0.57%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 52% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 23 months later
· 23 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.57% · top 52% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References13
- https://www.sudo.ws/releases/changelog/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/9 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/7873f8334c8d31031f8cfa83bd97ac6029309e4f (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02545 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/releases/tag/SUDO_1_9_15 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- GLSA-202401-29 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2024-cdccda4f62 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240208-0002/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2024-6fa5af9ea8 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/R4Q23NHCKCLFIHSNY6KJ27GM7FSCEVXM/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/U6XMRUJCPII4MPWG43HTYR76DGLEYEFZ/ (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/23/2 (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/24/6 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-46905 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-42465)Record last updated .